TYPES OF TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE TITLE OF MASTER IN THE ORDINANCES OF GERMAN STONEMASONS AND THEIR NEIGHBORING CRAFTS FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Abstract

In the fifteenth century ordinances of stonemasons and their neighboring crafts in German language area began to prescribe the technical requirements for the title of master. I classified the types of these regulations from the fifteenth to the first half of the seventeenth century, and showed their divesity and transition. Relation between each types, their character, initiative of municipalities for the regulations are also indicated.