My paper "Interpreting status, hierarchy and oligarchy in London’s livery companies in the earlier sixteenth century" has just been published in Social History. How did London's livery companies conceive of status and hierarchy, and how did this compare across the companies?
Interpreting status, hierarchy and oligarchy in London’s livery companies in the earlier sixteenth century
London’s livery companies (or guilds) have long been seen as bastions of privilege, but their members have never been equally privileged or esteemed. Their mechanisms of power and status are highly...
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