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Stonecutters and stonecutter's lodge in the 1370s

Publication |
2019

Abstract

One of the main building crafts at the St Vitus Gothic cathedral constituted stonecutters, who produced stone construction components. St Vitus building accounts of 1372-78 enable description of the workings of the stonecutter's lodge, in which they were organized.

Working activities, numbers and fluctuation of the workers, in some cases also geographical migration are surveyed.