Catharina Lis: 2 books
by Catharina Lis
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This volume takes a fresh and innovative approach to the history of ideas of work, concerning perceptions, attitudes, cultures and representations of work throughout Antiquity and the medieval and early modern periods. Focusing on developments in Europe, the contributors approach the subject from...
Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries
Work, Power, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In the half millennium of their existence, guilds in the Low Countries played a highly significant role in shaping the societies of which they were a part. One key aspect that has been identified in recent historical research to explain the survival of the guilds for such a long time is the guilds'...