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of the Alps. They had taught men the management of
capital, bookkeeping and the various forms of credit, and
though they continued to dominate the trade in money,
they found themselves faced by a growing number of
rivals in the trade in merchandise.
The peculiar character of medieval town life was its
juxtaposition of two populations. There were the burgesses or
guildsmen for whom the town mainly existed, and whose effort
was to fix prices and standards for goods and conditions of
citizenship:
The period in which the craft guilds dominated or
influenced the economic regime of the towns is also that
in which urban protectionism reached its height. However
divergent their professional interests might be, all