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Professional Guilds and the History of Insurance. A Comparative Analysis, hg. v. Phillip Hellwege

Professional Guilds and the History of Insurance. A Comparative Analysis, hg. v. Phillip Hellwege These two volumes published within Phillip Hellwege’s ERC Consolidator Grant project, devoted to the history of insurance in Europe, address a complex and often neglected issue: the relationship between guilds and life insurance.I. The first volume (Professional Guilds and the History of Insurance) provides a fascinating European-wide overview. It is abundantly known that guilds often provided support to their members. The details of such support, however, are often not clear. Much unlike the statutes of many guilds, which have survived and can be read today, few records about their actual day-to-day-business have survived. This has at times encouraged different interpretations as to the specific characteristics of the mutual help provided by those guilds, and especially its relationship with life insurance proper. While the financial structure (admission fees, contributions, fines etc.) of most guilds was rather uniform across Europe, the kind of support they provided varied significantly. After all, it would be highly reductive to think of guilds simply as the equivalent of modern professional associations (if only because this would presuppose the emersion of the modern concept of state, which absorbed a great variety of tasks previously left to various intermediate bodies).Whether guilds progressively emerged endogenously within the social http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Germanistische Abteilung de Gruyter

Professional Guilds and the History of Insurance. A Comparative Analysis, hg. v. Phillip Hellwege

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These two volumes published within Phillip Hellwege’s ERC Consolidator Grant project, devoted to the history of insurance in Europe, address a complex and often neglected issue: the relationship between guilds and life insurance.I. The first volume (Professional Guilds and the History of Insurance) provides a fascinating European-wide overview. It is abundantly known that guilds often provided support to their members. The details of such support, however, are often not clear. Much unlike the statutes of many guilds, which have survived and can be read today, few records about their actual day-to-day-business have survived. This has at times encouraged different interpretations as to the specific characteristics of the mutual help provided by those guilds, and especially its relationship with life insurance proper. While the financial structure (admission fees, contributions, fines etc.) of most guilds was rather uniform across Europe, the kind of support they provided varied significantly. After all, it would be highly reductive to think of guilds simply as the equivalent of modern professional associations (if only because this would presuppose the emersion of the modern concept of state, which absorbed a great variety of tasks previously left to various intermediate bodies).Whether guilds progressively emerged endogenously within the social

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Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Germanistische Abteilung – de Gruyter

Published: Jul 1, 2022

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