I recently stumbled across -- in Peter Ackroyd's book "London" -- a description of daily working life in that bustling city during the late Medieval Age. Central to this world was the guild.

In his native England, James Pearce says, the guilds are everywhere. Drawing on a practice that dates back to medieval times, a guild is a group of craftspeople or merchants who've banded together ...

Modern European cities and medieval cities share a population-density ... around hierarchical institutions such as the crown, guilds, and churches. Today, companies, technologies, and a global ...

Science is helping researchers judge books by their covers — and revealing surprising beneficiaries of medieval trading routes in the process. Dozens of rare, fur-covered volumes from 12th and ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval ...

A NEW walking trail could be set up in York, to teach visitors more about the city’s Medieval guilds and buildings. Plans have been submitted to City of York Council to create the trail that ...