COMPANIES AND GUILDS
Archer, I. 1991. The History of the Haberdashers’ Company. Chichester, Phillimore.
Artusi, Luciano. 1990. Le arti e i mestieri di Firenze. Rome: Newton Compton.
Banchi, Luciano, ed. 1881. L’arte della seta in Siena nei secoli XV e XVI. Statuti e documenti. Siena.
Berger, R. M. 1993. The Most Necessary Luxuries: the Mercers’ Company of Coventry, 1550-1680. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press.
Bologna, G. 1962. ‘La corporazione dei sarti a Milano dal secolo XIV al secolo XVIII’. In Studi in onore di Amintore Fanfani. Milan: Giuffrè Editore.
Borelli, G, ed. 1991. Le corporazioni nella realtà economica e sociale dell’Italia nei secoli dell’età moderna: atti della V giornata di studio sugli antichi stati italiani... In Studi storici Luigi Simeoni, XLI.
Deals with the eighteenth century onwards.
Borgherini Scarabellin, Maria. 1964. L’arte della lana in Padova durante il governo della repubblica di Venezia, 1405-1797. Venice: Deputazione di storia patria per le Venezie.
Bourbier, Cecile and Alberto Pezzato. 1994. ‘L’arte della seta e la chiesa dei gesuiti a Venezia’. In Jacquard, n.22, autumn.
Discusses the links between the Venetian silk guild and the Jesuit church of Santa Maria Assunta.
Brunello, Franco. 1989. ‘Arti e mestieri, corporazioni artigiane, arte della lana, arte della seta’. In L’età della Repubblica Veneta (1404-1797), ed. by Franco Barbieri and Paolo Preto, pp.273-300. Vicenza: N. Pozza.
Calabresi, Ilio. 1995. Glossario giuridico dei testi in volgare di Montepulciano: saggio di un lessico della lingua giuridica italiana. Testo 23, i tre statuti dei calzolai di Montepulciano (1326-1731): premessa al quarto volume nel V centenario della morte del Poliziano. Florence: Pacini Editore.
Calegari, Manlio. 1969. La Società Patria delle Arti e Manifatture, iniziativa imprenditoriale e rinnovamento tecnologico nel riformismo genovese del Settecento. Florence: Giunti Barbèra.
Campanini, Naborre. 1888. Ars Siricea Regii. Vicende dell’Arte della seta in Reggio nell’Emilia dal sec. XVI al sec. XIX. Reggio Emilia.
Cazzola, Franco. 1967. ‘Polemiche e contrasti per l’istituzione dell’Arte della seta a Ferrara (1595-1620)’. In Economia e Storia 14, pp.291-329.
Cerutti, Simona. 1992. Mestieri e privilegi: nascita delle corporazioni a Torino secoli XVII-XVIII. Turin: Einaudi.
Coniglio, Giuseppe. 1948. ‘Il fondo dell’Arte della seta nell’Archivio di Stato di Napoli’. In Notizie degli Archivi di Stato 8, pp.170-182.
Consitt, F. 1933. The Weavers’ Company. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
Dal Pane, Luigi. 1940. Il tramonto delle corporazioni in Italia (secoli XVIII e XIX). Milan: Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale.
Davies, M. P. and Saunders, A. S. 2004. The History of the Merchant Taylors’ Company. Leeds, Maney.
De Maddalena, Aldo. 1964. ‘Dalle corporazioni di arti e mestieri alla Camera di Commercio’. In Studi e ricerche facoltà econ. Commercio univ. Parma, 1, pp.49-57.
Destefanis, Gina. 1942. ‘Notizie sull’Arte della seta e sulla ‘Università dei Filatoieri’ in Racconigi, nei secoli XVI, XVII e XVIII’. In Bollettino della Società per gli studi storici, archeologici ed artistici della provincia di Cuneo 21, pp. 53-75.
Dobson, R. B. and Smith, D. M. eds. 2006. The Merchant Taylors of York: a History of the Craft and Company from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century. York, Borthwick Publications.
Greci, R. 1996. ‘Donne e corporazioni: la fluidità di un rapporto’. In Angela Groppi, ed. Il lavoro delle donne. Rome: Laterza.
Griselini, Francesco. 1769. Dizionario delle arti e dei mestieri, Venice.
Guenzi, Alberto, Paola Massa and Fausto Piola Caselli, eds. 1998. Guilds, Markets and Work Regulations in Italy, 16th -19th Centuries. Aldershot: Ashgate Press.
Guenzi, Alberto. 1992. ‘Arte, maestri e lavoranti. I calzolai di Modena dalla corporazione alla società di mutuo soccorso (secoli XVII-XIX)’. In Quaderni storici, LXXX.
Hogarth, S. D. and Webb, C. C. 1994. ‘The Account Book of the York Company of Silkweavers, 1611-1700’, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, LXVI, 191-213.
Hogarth, S. D. and Webb, C. C. 1995. ‘The Account Book of the York Company of Silkweavers, 1611-1700’, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, LXVII, 163-173.
Houston, J. F. 2006. Featherbedds and Flock Bedds. The Early History of the Worshipful Company of Upholders of the City of London. Sandy, Bedfordshire, Three Tents Press.
Hunting, P. 1989. A History of the Drapers’ Company. London, The Worshipful Company of Drapers.
Johnson, A. H. 1922. The History of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
Lecce, Michele. 1975. ‘Compagnie ‘de negotio’ veronesi agli inizi del Seicento’. In Ricerche di storia economica e medioevale di Michele Lecce (first published 1959). Verona, pp. 359-382.
Lemire, B. 1995. ‘Redressing the history of the clothing trade in England: ready-made clothing, guilds, and women workers 1650-1800’, Dress, 21, 61-74.
Considers the rise of the ready-made clothing trade in England (the garments largely produced by women) and its clash with the tailoring guilds. Illustrated by items in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
Mackenney, Richard. 1981. ‘Arti e stato a Venezia tra tardo Medioevo e ‘600’. In Studi veneziani, 5, pp. 127-143.
Mackenney, Richard. 1984. ‘Guilds and Guildsmen in Sixteenth-century Venice’. In Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies II/2, pp. 7-18.
Mackenney, Richard. 1997. ‘The Guilds of Venice: State and Society in the Long Duree’. In Studi veneziani, 34, pp. 15-43.
Mackenney, Richard. 1987. Tradesmen and Traders. The World of the Guilds in Venice and Europe, c.1250-c.1650. London: Croom Helm.
Massa Piergiovanni, P. 1991. ‘Funzioni economiche e contingenze politiche nelle corporazioni genovesi in età moderna’. In Studi storici Luigi Simeoni, vol. XLI.
Mauceri, Alberto. 1932. ‘I capitoli del Consolato dell’Arte della Seta a Messina’. In Archivio storico siciliano, 52, pp. 251-264.
Micheli, Giuseppe. 1896. ‘Le corporazioni parmensi d’arti e mestieri’. In Archivio storico per le provincie parmensi, 5, pp.1-137.
Micheli, Giuseppe. 1913. Gli statuti delle corporazioni parmensi. Parma: Deputazione di storia patria per le province parmensi.
[should also go under ‘documentary sources’]
Mordenti, A. 1986. ‘L’arte della calzolaria in Ancona’. In Studi anconitani, IV, pp. 3-114.
Morelli, G. 1937. Le corporazioni romane di arti e mestieri dal XIII al XIX secolo. Rome.
Morelli Timpanaro, M.A. 1988. ‘Andrea Maria Alamanni e Rosso Antonio Martini. Deputati ‘nuovi’ dell’Arte della lana di Firenze’. In Critica storica, XXV.
On the early eighteenth century in Florence.
Musto, Dora. 1964. ‘I mercanti e gli artigiani calabresi iscritti nelle matricole dell’Arte della seta conservate presso l’Archivio di Stato di Napoli’. In Atti del III congresso storico calabrese (19-26 maggio 1963). Naples, pp. 439-491.
Oldland, J. 2006. ‘The wealth of the trades in Early Tudor London’, London Journal, XXXI(2), 127-155.
Oldland, J. 2008. ‘The London Fullers and Shearmen, and their merger to become the Clothworkers’ Company’, Textile History, 39(2), 172-192.
There was a large and rapidly expanding cloth finishing industry in London in the late fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century. London merchants brought provincial cloth to the City, some of which was finished prior to export, and some was finished for the City’s expanding clothing industry. The success of the London Fullers and Shearmen was reflected in their merger to form the Clothworkers’ Company in 1528, and their acceptance ten years later as the last and twelfth merchant company in the City. The paper traces both the economic progress of the company and some of its principal members, and the difficulties that the Fullers and Shearmen faced as they decided to merge, and then to become accepted as one of the leading companies in the City.
Pecile, G. 1881. Capitoli dell’arte della lana in Pordenone (1516-1529). Turin.
Pescione, Raffaele. 1919-1920. ‘Gli statuti dell’Arte della seta in Napoli in rapporto al privilegio di giurisdizione’. In Archivio storico per le Provincie Napoletane, 5, pp. 159-190; 6, pp. 61-87.
Pescione, Raffaele. 1923. Il tribunale dell’Arte della seta in Napoli (da documenti inediti). Naples.
Petino, Antonio. 1942. ‘L’arte ed il Consolato della seta a Catania nei secoli XIV-XIX’. In Bollettino storico catanese, pp. 15-78.
Plummer, A. 1972. The London Weavers’ Company 1600-1970. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Poni, C. 1989. ‘Norms and Disputes: The Shoemaker’s Guild in Eighteenth-Century Bologna’. In Past and Present, CXXIII.
[should also go under ‘accessories-footwear’]
Portioli, Attilio. 1884. Le corporazioni artiere e l’archivio della Camera di Commercio di Mantova. Mantua: Segna.
Ragosta Portioli R. 1999. ‘Istituzioni e conflitti nell’Arte della Seta a Napoli (secc. XVI-XVIII). In A. Guenzi, P. Massa and A. Moioli, ed. Corporazioni e gruppi professionali nell’Italia moderna. Milan: Angeli, pp. 339-350.
Santoro, Caterina, ed. 1955. Collegi professionali e corporazioni d’Arti e Mestieri della vecchia Milano. Milan: Archivio Storico Civico.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Archivio Storico Civico of Milan.
Santoro, Caterina. 1965. ‘Dall’Universitas Mercatorum alle Corporazioni d’arti e mestieri’, in Il commercio lombardo, Milan.
Saunders, A. S. 2003. ‘‘A Cloke not made so Orderly’: the sixteenth century minutes of the Merchant Taylors’ Company’, The Ricardian, XIII, 415-419.
The author reviews the earliest court minutes of the Merchant Taylors’ Company in London and comments on some of the few references they contain to garments from the 1560s and 1570s.
Sleigh-Johnson, N. 2007. ‘The Merchant Taylors’ Company of London under Elizabeth I: Tailors’ Guild or Company of Merchants?’, Costume, 41, 45-52.
Probably the most neglected aspect of the history of the guilds and livery companies of early modern London is the ubiquitous subordinate organisation known as the ‘yeomanry’ or ‘bachelors’ company’. Many narrative histories of individual companies make only passing reference to the existence of a yeomanry, and dismiss the organisations as generally transient and insignificant. Per contra, the yeomanry of at least one of the major City livery companies represented to an extraordinary degree a company within a company in the later sixteenth century.
By the time Elizabeth ascended the throne, the yeomanry body of the Merchant Taylors’ Company had acquired effective responsibility for the vast majority of the Company’s membership. To most contemporary and modern observers, the dazzling wealth, magnificent ceremonies and eminent members — entitled to wear the prestigious livery gown of the Company, and generally drawn from the mercantile and civic élite — were the most intriguing aspects of the history of the Merchant Taylors’ Company. To the poor freemen below the livery these matters were of less significance.
Part I of this article examines briefly the origins, nature and functions of the sub-company. Part II explores the degree to which this body represented the continuation of the traditions of the medieval guild of London tailors and continued to embody the aspirations and interests of its artisan members.
Smith, D. M. 1994. A Guide to the Archives of the Company of Merchant Taylors in the City of York. York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research.
Staccini, R, ed. 1987. L’arte dei ciabattini di Perugia. Perugia.
Stayley, Edgcumbe. 1906. The Guilds of Florence. London.
Sutton, A. F. 2005. The Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People, 1130-1578. Aldershot, Ashgate.
Although mercers have long been recognised as one of the most influential trades in medieval London, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the trade from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. The variety of mercery goods (linen, silk, worsted and small manufactured items including what is now called haberdashery) gave the mercers of London an edge over all competitors. The sources and production of all these commodities is traced throughout the period covered. It was as the major importers and distributors of linen in England that London mercers were able to take control of the Merchant Adventurers and the export of English cloth to the Low Countries. The development of the Adventurers’ Company and its domination by London mercers is described from its first privileges of 1296 to after the fall of Antwerp.
This book investigates the earliest itinerant mercers and the artisans who made and sold mercery goods (such as the silkwomen of London, so often mercers’ wives), and their origins in counties like Norfolk, the source of linen and worsted. These diverse traders were united by the neighbourhood of the London Mercery on Cheapside and by their need for the privileges of the freedom of London.
Extensive use of Netherlandish and French sources puts the London Mercery into the context of European Trade, and literary texts add a more personal image of the merchant and his preoccupation with his social status which rose from that of the despised pedlar to the advisor of princes.
After a slow start, the Mercers’ Company came to include some of the wealthiest and most powerful men of London and administer a wide range of charitable estates such as that of Richard Whittington. The story of how they survived the vicissitudes inflicted by the wars and religious changes of the sixteenth century concludes this wide-ranging study.
Tomassetti, Giovanni. 1881. ‘L’Arte della seta sotto Sisto V in Roma’. In Studi e documenti di storia e diritto, 2, pp. 131-152.
Verga, Ettore. 1917. Il Comune di Milano e l’Arte della seta dal secolo decimoquinto al decimottavo. Milan.
Verga, Ettore. 1903. ‘Le corporazioni delle industrie tessili in Milano: loro rapporti e conflitti nei secoli XVI-XVIII’, in Archivio storico lombardo, XXX, pp. 64-125.
Vianello, Andrea. 1993. L’arte dei calegheri e zavateri di Venezia tra XVII e XVIII secolo. Venice: Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti.
Waggett, R. W. 2000. A History of the Worshipful Company of Glovers of London. Chichester, Phillimore.
Wardle, P. 2006. ‘A Rare Survival: the Barge Cloth of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers and the Embroiderer John Best’, Textile History, 37, 1-16.
The Worshipful Company of Pewterers of London owns a barge cloth embroidered with the Company’s arms and dated 1662. The bill for it from the embroiderer John Best also survives as part of that for a new barge ordered around the time of the entry into London by river of Charles II’s bride Catherine of Braganza. The embroidery, which is a rare surviving example of applied work in woollen cloth on a wool ground, was the most expensive item in the order apart from the barge itself. The technique is compared with that of some other extant embroideries, while John Best’s work for the Great Wardrobe Accounts is also discussed.
Wickham, D. E. 2001. The Deluge of Time: an Illustrated History of the Clothworkers’ Company. London, Clothworkers’ Company.
