Guild and Village Politics: Altare between Migrations and Social Stratification, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century
Maitte, Corine
Guild and Village Politics: Altare between Migrations and Social Stratification, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century - 2001.
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This paper belongs to a new movement of studies about the migration of specialists of modern time. The glass blowers of Altare, a village of Montferrat with about a 1,000 inhabitants, have since been known for their role in France as glass blowers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. However, their migrations were most often punctually studied without relation with the community of origin. This paper reconstitutes the structure of the Altare community and analyzes the link between community and the glass industry. It studies the role the guild (founded in 1495) played in these migrations and shows that belonging to the guild slowly tended to determine the social and political status of people. It finally shows how the claim of nobility by the members of the glass blowers guild was a resource mobilized at the end of the eighteenth century following internal conflicts in the community. This provoked the intervention of the Piedmont State, and subsequently the abolition of the guild (1825).
Guild and Village Politics: Altare between Migrations and Social Stratification, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century - 2001.
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This paper belongs to a new movement of studies about the migration of specialists of modern time. The glass blowers of Altare, a village of Montferrat with about a 1,000 inhabitants, have since been known for their role in France as glass blowers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. However, their migrations were most often punctually studied without relation with the community of origin. This paper reconstitutes the structure of the Altare community and analyzes the link between community and the glass industry. It studies the role the guild (founded in 1495) played in these migrations and shows that belonging to the guild slowly tended to determine the social and political status of people. It finally shows how the claim of nobility by the members of the glass blowers guild was a resource mobilized at the end of the eighteenth century following internal conflicts in the community. This provoked the intervention of the Piedmont State, and subsequently the abolition of the guild (1825).
Réseaux sociaux