Published: 2021-12-03

Books of the Craft Corporations of Proszowice from the 15th Century. A Contribution to the Study of Urban Literacy in the Middle Ages

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Abstract

In his article, Karol Nabiałek is concerned with the documentation of craft guilds from the city of Proszowice in the Kraków area (Małopolska or Lesser Poland). He examines two manuscripts — the blacksmiths’ and the tailors’. Both books were probably started in the 1480s and were kept through the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The appropriate method of dating of such books must be based identifying the paper on which they are written. Nabiałek has prepared codicological descriptions and carried out an overview of the contents of both manuscripts. He has made an attempt to determine the status of these corporations. The blacksmiths’ manuscript was probably both a guild and a confraternity book. The tailors’ files initially contained a list of members of the religious confraternity, and, from the sixteenth century on, matters of the guild were entered in them. These manuscripts are rare examples of extant landmark works of medieval writing of professional craft corporations preserved in Poland.

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Nabiałek, K. (2021). Books of the Craft Corporations of Proszowice from the 15th Century. A Contribution to the Study of Urban Literacy in the Middle Ages. Średniowiecze Polskie I Powszechne, 13, 101–132. https://doi.org/10.31261/SPiP.2021.17.06

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Vol. 13 (2021)
Published: 2021-12-03


ISSN: 2080-492X
eISSN: 2353-9720

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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