Before revision: Early Corporations in feudal europe have been formed as a guild-like system from pre-existing devotional religious brotherhoods, while the new ones were based on the association given by the oath which committed their members to mutual assistance and the defense of common interests and were prominently mercantile corporations such as the Guilds of Florence.
After revision: Corporations in feudal europe have been formed as a guild-like system from pre-existing devotional religious brotherhoods, while the new ones were based on the association given by the oath which committed their members to mutual assistance and the defense of common interests and were prominently mercantile corporations such as the Guilds of Florence.