By Jimmie M and Kelsey G
• Urban growth allowed more specialized manufacturing and commercial ac7vi7es, which in turn promoted sill greater trade.
• Rising trade took several forms. There were exchanges between Western Europe and other parts of the known world.
• Mediterranean trade was redeveloped mainly in the hands of Italian merchants, they traded cloth and other products for higher quality goods.
Trade routes medieval western Europe
• Medieval Guilds played an important role in Medieval towns as guilds aFempted to guarantee standards amongst craGs in Medieval England.
• Guilds are a group of skilled craGsmen in the same trade group.
• A guild would make sure that anything made by a guild member was up to standard and was sold for a fair price.
• Membership of a guild was an honor as it was a sign that you were a skilled worker who had some respect in society.
Medieval Guilds Con7nued
• Guilds played an important poli7cal and social role in the ci7es, giving their members recognized status and oGen a voice in city government.
Hansea7c League • The Hansea7c League was a market commercial
and defensive confedera7on of merchant guilds towns. It dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe. (1400-‐1800)
• Major European rivers, linked Hansa to the Mediterranean
• Women had liFle or no role to play within the country at large.
• Women could get paid for certain jobs, but would be payed substan7ally less than a man doing the same job.
• About 90% of all women lived in rural areas and were therefore involved in some form of farm work.
• The Hansea7c League was a commercial and defensive confedera7on of merchant guilds and their market towns. It dominated trade (c. 1400-‐1800) along the coast of Northern Europe.1400-‐1800)
Women working in western Europe during the medieval ages
• Women had to follow the law set by men. women were…
‾ not allowed to marry without their parents’ consent
‾ could own no business with special permission ‾ not allowed to divorce their husbands ‾ could not own property of any kind unless they
were widows ‾ could not inherit land from their parents’ if they
had any surviving brothers • Women from richer families tended to marry
younger than women from poor families
-‐Middle Class (Urban) women • Towns and ci7es offered fresh opportuni7es for
women • Women worked in a wide range of occupa7ons • Most guilds admiFed women, and women also had
their own guilds -‐The Church Women • As nuns women acquired social equality with men
by renouncing sexuality • Abbesses, nuns could run monasteries, were
educated, had great influence
• Formal banking started in the thirteenth century.
• Banks were normally buildings owned by families, and inside the building would be a locked room with locked storage boxes.
• medieval bankers such as the Floren7ne Bardi and Peruzzi in the 14th century and the Medici in the 15th had operated on an interna7onal scale, but the full development of an interna7onal money market with suppor7ng ins7tu7ons awaited the 16th century.
Banking in western Europe
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