Organisation corporative et production d'œuvres d'art à Bruges à la fin du Moyen Âge et au début des Temps modernes

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P. STABEL, Guild organisation and artistic production in Bruges at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Early Modern Period The production of works of art in late medieval cities was characterized by important shifts. Despite the so-called rigidity of guild regulation, Bruges entrepreneurs were often capable of developing new products and organise their markets in fl exible ways. Artisan’s careers can be explained in this logic of fl exibility and adaptation. Geographic and social mobility and the relative open character of guilds do not exclude in any way patterns of social exclusion and polarisation within the structures of the guild of Saint Luke. Painters and other artisans involved in the production and sale of luxury commodities do not differ that much from those employed in the textile or service industries. Regulation was relatively fl exible and open and aimed a defi ning rules of conduct on matters of social hierarchy, product quality and modes of payment, rather than on contracts of apprenticeship, relations between entrepreneurs and their employees, between masters and their families, between artisans and merchant or between retailers and their customers, which all were defined by individual negotiation, for which the guild provided a forum.