Editing Merchant (section)

==In architecture==
Although merchant halls were known in antiquity, they fell into disuse and were not reinvented until Europe's medieval period.<ref>Gelderblom, O. and Grafe, E., "The Persistence and Decline of Merchant Guilds: Re-thinking the Comparative Study of Commercial Institutions in Pre-modern Europe," [Working Paper], Yale University, 2008</ref> During the 12th century, powerful guilds which controlled the way that trade was conducted were established and were often incorporated into the charters granted to [[market town]]s. By the 13th and 14th centuries, merchant guilds had acquired sufficient resources to erect guild halls in many major market towns.<ref>Epstein S.A, ''Wage Labor and Guilds in Medieval Europe,'' University of North Carolina Press, 1991, pp 50–100</ref> Many buildings have retained the names derived from their former use as the home or place of business of merchants:{{Cn|date=August 2021}}
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File:Merchant's House, Kirkcaldy.jpg|''The Merchant's House'', [[Kirkcaldy]], Scotland
File:Merchant Tower.jpg|''[[Merchant Tower]]'', [[Kentucky]], USA
File:Medieval merchant's house 2012.JPG|Medieval merchant's house, [[Southampton]], England
File:Tudor Merchant's Hall - geograph.org.uk - 1428491.jpg|Tudor ''Merchant's Hall'', Southampton, England
File:Drapers' Hall, Bayley Lane - geograph.org.uk - 534432.jpg|Drapers' Hall, Coventry, England
File:8197 - Venezia - Scola dei fabbri in p.zza San Moisè (sec. XVI) - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto, 8-Aug-2007.jpg|The Blacksmiths' Guild Hall, Venice, Italy
File:Scuola dei Tessitori di Panni di Lana.jpg|Shoemakers' Guild Hall, Venice, Italy
File:Einbeck-Am.Markt-Brodhaus.01.JPG|Brodhaus, Bakers' Guild, Einbeck, Germany
File:Knochenhaueramtshaus Hildesheim 719-vfL-50.jpg|Knochenhaueramtshaus, Butcher's guild hall, Hildesheim, Germany
File:4678 vleeshuis.jpg|The Butcher's Hall, Antwerp, Belgium
File:Hansehausantwerpen.jpg|The Hanseatic League Building, Antwerp, 16th century
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