Sentence examples for merchant guilds from inspiring English sources

Craft guilds arose soon after merchant guilds did.

The medieval guilds were generally one of two types: merchant guilds or craft guilds.

Craft and merchant guilds would often control different areas of a particular industry.

Merchants were becoming capitalistic entrepreneurs and forming companies, thus making the merchant guilds less important.

Some engaged in commerce and formed groups known as merchant guilds.

Such early companies were regulated companies, deriving the principles of their organization from the medieval merchant guilds.

Merchant guild, a European medieval association composed of traders interested in international commerce.

It also had a provincial mint and later (1215 16) the grant of an exclusive merchant guild.

Edward I granted a charter in 1284, making the community a free borough with a merchant guild.

In most European towns the imposition of a high entrance fee gave the merchant guild an exclusive character, although it is clear that the merchant patriciate normally exercised authority through its control of the urban constitution rather than through the merchant guild as such.

The merchant guild, or hong (hang in Pinyin), that handled trade between China and the West was known to the Westerners as the cohong (a corruption of gonghang, meaning "officially authorized merchants").