Introduction to the conflict between the tailors and the pellers in modern foral Valencia
Naomi BOIGUES ESCRIVÀ
Original title: Introducció a les conflictivitats gremials entre sastres i pellers en la València foral moderna
Published in
Keywords: Conflict, Decline, Disobedience, Guilds.
We are in the modern Valencia of the 16th century where the powers to achieve the trade union control encouraged the tensions between the closest professional groups, which had the objective of gaining ground within the complex world of craftsmanship. There are many guilds that confronted each other, but however, the tailors and pellers lawsuits have been considered as one of the most important processes and the longest historical route of trade-union unrest in the city of Valencia. The processes arranged chronologically from 1535 to 1695 will be key to understanding the reasons for the conflict, the arguments used by each guild and how they acted in this regard, to analyze who were the most affected and explain the solutions. This analysis will allow us to understand tailors and pellers trade in more detail, to realize the main characteristics of each guild and discern the historical evolution of each one of them in a closer way. A first study, which helps us to understand the importance of guild conflicts between these two trades and helps us to look beyond disobedience.
Textile crafts regulations in the Portuguese urban areas, 14th-15th centuries
Joana SEQUEIRA
Original title: A regulamentação dos ofícios têxteis no mundo urbano em Portugal, séculos XIV-XV
Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)
Keywords: Common good, Crafts, Guilds, Regulation, Textile.
This article examines the regulations concerning the different textile occupations in Portugal between the 14th and 15th centuries, with a specific focus on those emanated by the municipalities of Lisbon, Porto and Évora. To understand the specificities of the textile sector in contrast to other crafts in different spaces, the regulations are classified and analysed according to its contents. Since these contents vary depending on the authors of the regulations, the analysis considers the socio-political context of its production. I. Introduction: Crafts regulation as a research topic II. The Portuguese legal context and the available sources III. The textile sector in Portugal in the Middle Ages IV. The contents of regulations: setting wages V. The contents of regulations: weights and measures control and quality control VI. The contents of regulations: activities settings and sanitary conditions VII. The contents of regulations: levies VIII. The silences of the regulations IX. Conclusions.
The Glassmaking Business in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula
Eduardo JUÁREZ VALERO
Original title: El negocio del vidrio en la Península Ibérica medieval
Published in Emotions in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean World
Keywords: Glass, Glassmaking monopoly, Guilds, Protection of the secret knowledge, Trading.
Secret was the essence of the knowledge in the world of the glassmaking during the Middle and Modern Ages. As the glassmakers were protecting their secret knowledge, they were creating special types of guilds associated to a special legal environments. In Spain the most important example was the environment of the glassmakers’ guild of Barcelona and the Castilian way, especially in Cadalso de los Vidrios. This article studies the evolution of those legal environments and their influence in the Spanish glass monopoly.
