In medieval times, if you lived in Claudiopolis/Kolozsvár/Clausenburg, owned a house or land and paid your taxes, then you could call yourself a full-fledged townsman. Depending on the trade they practised, the townspeople organized themselves in craft associations, called guilds. The guilds had an economic, political and administrative role in the life of the city and they also ensured the costs of defense and renovation of the fortification system. Our colleague Dr. Diana Iegar tells us about the most powerful guilds in Cluj and how you could become a member of such a guild. Ioana Cova, conservator of the museum, tells us about the way of exhibiting a special object, a book of the goldsmiths' guild from Cluj, which dates back to the 16th century.
The model book of the goldsmiths' guild from Cluj, (Cluj-Napoca, Cluj county)
