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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