ENGLAND IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (1066-1304)

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ENGLAND IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (1066-1304)
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Moral Economy

• No Concept of History
• Fair or Just Price
• Enforcement
• Forestalling, Engrossing and Regrating
• Price Controls
• Wage Controls
• Tenantry Controls
• Churchs Support

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English Guilds

• Two Types Guild Merchants (Market Guilds) and
  Craft Guilds
• Guild Merchants
• Definition
• Rules
• Fraternal Function

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Craft Guilds

• Scope
• Chief Goal
• Embodied Assumptions of Moral Economy
• Discouraged Competition

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Craft Guilds

• Basis of Guild Control Apprenticeship System
• Three Levels
• Quota of Workers

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Craft Guilds

• Regulations
• Controlled Access
• Hours
• Wages
• Quality of Goods
• Prices
• Condition of Sales

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Craft Guilds

• Social Welfare
• Social Activity
• Civic Pride
• Impact

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• Left Banqueting Room at Brewers Hall, City of
  London
• Right Coat of Arms of the Brewers Company

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Women and Guilds

• Myth Women as Unpaid Labor
• Husbands Trade
• Trades Monopolized or Dominated by Women
  Spinsters, Websters and Brewsters

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Women and Guilds

• Why Women Formed No Craft Guilds
• Statute of 1363
• Bye Industries

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Manorial System

• Rural Society
• Definition of a Manor
• Originated in Saxon England, but Term Introduced
  by Normans

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Medieval Manor
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• Divisions of Peasantry
• Freeholders (Free Tenants)
• Serfs (Villein)

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• Communal Nature of System
• Obligations
• 3 Field Crop Rotation
• Discouraged Individual Initiative

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• Lords Demesne
• Farmed by Peasants and Hired Laborers
• Produce Used by Lords Household and Surplus Sold
  at Markets in Nearby Towns