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Guilds, technology and innovation

Belfanti, Carlo Marco, 'Guilds, Patents, and the Circulation of Techinical Knowledge: Northern Italy during the Early Modern AgeLink opens in a new window ', Technology and Culture 45/3 (2004), 569-89. Project Muse

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Ciriacono, Salvatore, 'Migration, Minorities, and Technology Transfer in Early Modern Europe', Journal of European Economic History 34 (2005): 43-64.

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Mackenney, Richard, Tradesmen and Traders: the World of the Guilds in Venice and Europe, c.1250-c.1650 (London, 1986)

Mackenney, Richard, 'The guilds of Venice: state and society in the Longue Duree', Studi veneziani 34 (1997), 15 – 43.

Mackenney, Richard, Venice as the Polity of Mercy: Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, c. 1250-c. 1650Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (Toronto, 2019)

Salzberg, Rosa, "Masculine Republics: Establishing Authority in the Early Modern Venetian Printshop", in Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period, ed. S. Broomhall and J. Van Gent, pp. 47-64 (Farnham, UK, 2011).

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Shaw, James E., 'Retail, Monopoly and Privilege: The Dissolution of the Fishmongers' Guild of Venice, 1599', Journal of Early Modern History 6/4 (2002), pp. 396-427.