Regulations Related to Town Defenses in Guild Statutes of Cluj and Sighișoara (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)
Regulations Related to Town Defenses in Guild Statutes of Cluj and Sighișoara (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)

Summary/Abstract: The role of the guilds in town defense and in the maintenance of fortifications is a well known topic among historians specialized in medieval and early modern urban history. On the other hand, there are certain research questions which need to be asked. What did the defensive regulations exactly demand from the guilds? How many of those regulations from Transylvania have survived? Were the regulations modernized or updated with the constant development of firearms and defensive structures in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? The study focuses on presenting and discussing in detail the regulations of the guild statutes regarding the defensive obligations of craftsmen in fifteenth to seventeenth century Cluj and Sighișoara , completing the analysis with the use of primary source analogies from Sibiu and Brasov.

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