Paslavska N. A tailoring guild in Lviv in the 16th–18th сenturies: organizational forms and social relations.

The dissertation is devoted to the complex study of legal, economic and social as well as historical and demographic contents of a tailoring guild’s history in the city of Lviv during the course of the 16th –18th сenturies. The work analyzes the legislative basis of the guild system and determines the status of a tailoring corporation in the legal plane, outlining the rights and obligations of its members. Based on the analysis of source materials and resortion to scientific literature, the internal guild structure, production, specialization in crafts and competition outside the guild were reconstructed. The thesis follows the process of learning the craft and the professional career of a tailor. It also clarifies the causes and nature of social contradictions and ethno-denominational relations inside the guild, and forms the idea behind the demographic and prosopographic aspects of this historical phenomenon, emphasizing the fact that the tailoring guild was representative of the identity of the early modern corporate society. The research establishes that a tailoring guild in Lviv has never been the subject of special historiographic studies before, so there were no separate publications covering the genesis or organization of tailoring production in the city. The main base of the dissertation was formed by manuscripts (unpublished) and printed materials (privileges, charters, universals, act books, guild and financial books, registers of city law adoption, etc.). The use of a wide range of available sources and historiographic materials from different areas of urban life has made it possible to comprehensively and comprehensively reconstruct the object of the dissertation’s research.