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Bycroft, Michael (2018) Regulation and intellectual change at the Paris goldsmiths' guild, 1660-1740. Journal of Early Modern History, 22 (6). pp. 500-527. doi:10.1163/15700658-12342607
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342607
Abstract
Economic historians have shown that the regulations of craft guilds were a source of innovation rather than inertia in the economy of early modern Europe. Historians of science have shown that craftsmen contributed to the scientific revolution in the same time and place. But very little is known about the role of guild regulation in intellectual (as opposed to social, political and economic) change. This paper shows that regulation went hand-in-hand with intellectual change at the Paris guild of goldsmiths in the decades around 1700. In this period the wardens of the guild developed sophisticated techniques for organizing and disseminating their large archive of legal documents. They also published two books on the natural history of precious stones that broke with the learned tradition of writing on this topic. The reform of the archive and the reform of natural history were undertaken by the same goldsmiths, for similar reasons, using analogous literary techniques.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor N Fine Arts > NK Decorative arts Applied arts Decoration and ornament |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Goldsmiths -- France -- History, Goldsmiths -- France -- 18th century, Guilds -- France -- History, Guilds -- France -- 18th century | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Early Modern History | ||||||
| Publisher: | Brill | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1385-3783 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 12 December 2018 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 22 | ||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 500-527 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1163/15700658-12342607 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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