The notion of "guilds" in civic society might conjure images of craft guilds, the organisations of butchers, bakers or brewers set up to regulate working practises.
This is the first full-length study of the Archery and Crossbow guilds, encompassing not only the great urba.
In the towns of Medieval Flanders, however, a plethora of Guilds existed which had little or nothing to do with the organisation of labour, including chambers of rhetoric, urban jousters and Archery and Crossbow guilds.
The notion of "guilds" in civic society might conjure images of craft guilds, the organisations of butchers, bakers or brewers set up to regulate working practises