ST - Just a simple question

[Roy Heath]

--- Patrick Bureau <pbureau at home.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 01 April 2001 10:34 pm, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have a question that has been posed to me.  What do you think of when you
> > think of "Steppes Guilds"?  

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The only guilds I know of that are regularly meeting are the Calligraphy and Illumination,
Ceramics, Dance, and Cooking guilds.  There is an active archery community, but I do not think
they are considered a guild.
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> 
> Well I am unsure of the exact definition of a "guild", but historically 
> speaking, a guild (as much experience I know of this, in mead brewing through 
> the ages) was a group (read co-op) of people that banded together to provide 
> a method to centralized, organize, inform and represent the majority of the 
> "people" of that are in that field, to a certain point, standardizing the 
> field.
> 
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Partially correct.  If you think of guilds as local labor union branches with exclusive rights
to practise within a field and a feudal relationship between the guild leadership and the
members, that's getting a lot closer.  The purpose of a guild was to restrict the information
about a process to the families already practising that art within a city or area and protect
their economic viability from cheap foreign competition in either imported products or
imported labor.
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Roy Heath

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