Exercises on craft guilds in the Middle Ages

(Cescem-SP) The craft guilds were organized with the aim of:

1. defend the interests of artisans in the face of employers.
2. provide professional training to young nobles.
3. applying religious principles to everyday activities.
4. fight feudal lords.
5. protect crafts against competition and control production.

(Vunesp-SP) About the associations of important social groups of the Middle Ages, a historian wrote:They were cartels whose objective was the elimination of competition within the city and the maintenance of the monopoly of a minority of masters in the urban market .

(Jacques Le Goff, The Civilization of the Medieval West )

Text typically features:

1. medieval universities.
2. the performance of mendicant orders.
3. the craft corporations.
4. the domain of feudal lords.
5. the heretical sects.

Analyze the statements below about craft corporations.

(02) A craft corporation had the power to set prices for labor and raw materials used in a manufacturing process;

(04) The craft corporations brought together traders and artisans who were involved in the manufacture and sale of the same type of product;

(08) The corporation ex officio interfered in the quantity of products available for the offer and controlled the quotation of the prices of the goods they sold;

(16) The manufacture of products in craft corporations followed certain quality standards, in addition to seeking to combat changes in the manufacturing process of goods;

(32) In the urban space, corporations guaranteed freedom for non-associated people to manufacture the same product, thus stimulating commercial competition and leaving consumer markets duly free.

The sum of the numbers in parentheses preceding the incorrect statement(s) is:

1. 12
2. 10
3. 32
4. 20
5. 48

Craft guilds also marked the scene of the urban renaissance of the Late Middle Ages. Among the characteristics presented below, which of them do not fit in the craft corporations.

1. Its purpose was to bring together local traders to maintain a monopoly on local trade.
2. Its structure was strongly hierarchical, with control exercised by the master craftsman.
3. Apprentices received food, accommodation, clothing and apprenticeship in exchange for the work done.
4. Receiving a salary fixed by the master, the journeyman officers were distinguished by their specialized work.
5. Its existence guaranteed the right to collect taxes, organize troops, and administrative and judicial independence.

Match the terms in the left column with the definitions expressed in the right column.

The alternative that correctly relates the two columns is:

1. a-IV; b-II; c-I; d-III.
2. a-III; bi; c-IV; d-II.
3. a-II; b-IV; c-I; d-III.
4. a-II; bi; c-IV; d-III.

Letter E . The corporations brought together professionals from the same branch of production, such as shoemakers, with the aim of maintaining production within certain parameters, including controlling the learning of these functions by young apprentices.

Letter C . Corporations were a typically urban creation of the Middle Ages, seeking to ensure strict control over some sectors of artisanal production, both in terms of quantity and form of production and in the acceptance of new members.

Letter C . Only the last statement is incorrect, since the craft corporations fought competition by exerting a rigid control over production.

Letter A and And . In the case of the letter A, the characteristic refers to a guild and not a craft corporation. Regarding the letter E , the rights refer to the autonomy conquered by the cities in relation to some fiefs, when they obtained the franchising letters of some king.

Letter B .