Craft Guilds under pressure: political strategies between corporations and city council in 16th century Antwerp.

This Phd makes part of the research on 'civil society' and the 'urban corporate centerfield'. From the view of craft guilds, as corporative organizations of professions, this research focuses on how those associations could maintain a certain stability within the city while Antwerp dwellers came severely under pressure during the tempestuous and 'Long 16th Century', compared to the political, economic, social and cultural strategies of craft guilds in other Brabantine cities as Mechelen and Leuven.

Keywords:GOLDEN AGE (17TH CENTURY), CRAFT GUILDS

Disciplines:Economic history, History