Download or read book Tradesmen and Traders written by Richard Mackenney and published by Totowa, N.J. : Barnes and Noble Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new synthesis by offering a reinterpretation of the accepted views on the nature and functions of the guild as it existed in medieval and early modern Venice and Europe.