Routledge Research in Early Modern Histo Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300-1800, (Paperback)

This book presents an integrated history of the guilds in the Southern Netherlands, connecting political history, the history of political thought, economic history, and labor history, while taking into account the cultural and religious context. It does so from a long-term perspective, in order to counter anachronistic and ahistorical views on the