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CENTRE
FOR METROPOLITAN HISTORY,
INSTITUTE
OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH,
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Guilds:
London... England... Europe...
Friday
31 October - Saturday 1 November 2003
Room 329,
Third Floor
Senate House
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Exploring
the history of Europe's guilds and livery companies from 1000 to
1900
Conference
Committee: Dr I.A. Gadd, Dr M. Davies, Professor D. Keene, Dr P. Wallis
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Programme
Friday
31 October 2003
13.30 Registration and
Coffee
14.00 Session
1: cultural identities & practices
Margaret Pelling (University of Oxford)
Solidarity or individualism: the Barber-Surgeons’
Company and the Henchman-Barber in Early Modern London
Catherine Tite (Henry Moore Foundation
UK)
The Painter Stainers’ Company and the Dutch
and Flemish Diaspora in late 17th- and early 18th-century London
Sigrid Wadauer (University of Vienna,
Austria)
Tramping within the context of old craft
15.30 Tea
16.00 Session
2: absences & weaknesses
Brian Cowan (Yale University)
Corporation without Guild: The trade identity
of London coffeehouse-keepers, 1652-1750
David Marsh (Birkbeck College,
London)
On the fringes in every sense: the Gardeners' Company of London
in the 17th century
17.00 Break
17.15 Keynote — Professor
Derek Keene (University of London)
The
early history of English urban guilds: an underappreciated story?
18.45 Conference
Reception at Merchant Taylors’ Hall (30 Threadneedle Street,
London EC2R)
The Merchant Taylors’
Company is one of the Twelve Great City Livery Companies. A Hall has
existed on this site since the 1340s. Thanks to the generosity of the
Company, the conference reception will be held in the splendid surroundings
of the oak-panelled Parlour, which was built in 1681-2.
Saturday
1 November 2003
09.30 Arrival
09.40 Keynote — Professor S.R.
Epstein (London School of Economics)
Transmitting
craft knowledge in premodern Europe
10.40 Coffee
11.00 Session
3: guild economics
Bert de Munck (Free University of
Brussels (VUB))
Conventions and apprenticeships: the ‘embeddedness’ of markets versus
‘enlightened’ views on guilds
Johan Dambruyne (Ghent University)
Representation and investment strategies in the early modern guild
world: a comparison between the south and the north of the Low Countries
Lars Edgren (University of Lund)
What did a guild do? Swedish guilds
in the 18th and early 20th century
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Keynote — Professor Carlo
Poni (University of Bologna)
Guilds: the work of work. Formal knowledge and practical ability in Diderot's Encyclopedie
14.30
Session 4: prayer & power
Gary Richardson (University of California)
Craft and Christianity in Late Medieval
England: A Pious and Profitable Mystery
Gervase Rosser (University
of Oxford)
Big Brotherhood: the guild in urban politics
15.30 Tea
15.50 Session
5: post-1750 perspectives
Malcolm Chase (University of Leeds)
‘A sort of Corporation (tho’ without a charter)’: the guild tradition
and the emergence of British trade unionism
Philippe Minard (University of Lille-3)
Trade without institution? French debates about restoring guilds
in the beginning of the 19th century
George Sheridan (University of Oregon)
Craft technique and guild ethos in modern artisan industry:
the case of the silk weavers of Lyon, c.1800-1880
17.20 Conference ends
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