Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each item by whether it is best described as a TECHNIQUE or as an INSTITUTION.
Groups: Technique · Institution
- The guild regulating a trade’s entry and standards
- A town charter granting a market and a court
- The horse collar
- The commune as a sworn association of townsmen
- Double-entry bookkeeping
- Watermills for grinding and fulling
Hints
- One column is about ways of doing things; the other about arrangements people are bound by.
- Bookkeeping is a method; a guild is a body with members.
Show the answer
Technique: The horse collar, Double-entry bookkeeping, Watermills for grinding and fulling
Institution: A town charter granting a market and a court, The guild regulating a trade’s entry and standards, The commune as a sworn association of townsmen
Why
The medieval commercial expansion is usually taught as institutional and the agricultural one as technical, and both halves of that are half wrong. Bookkeeping and the mill are techniques inside a commercial world; the charter and the commune are institutions that made the agricultural surplus mobile.
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