[Sca-cooks] medieval/renaissance architectural construction crews &related food references

[Daniel And elizabeth phelps]

I've run across accounts of the building of fortifications (castles) where the number of persons of different building crafts were stated on a yearly basis.  Side note you might find the kid's books "Castle" and "Cathedral" of interest in their simple succinct descriptions of who did what in their construction.  

Daniel   

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Are you interested more in the "crew" aspect or the "architectural construction" aspect. There are laws concerning road building, including (as I recall) the feeding of crews --and road building is often a civic duty, rather than a guild controlled employment (at least in England).

toodles, margaret
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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] medieval/renaissance architectural construction        crews &related food references

Medieval and Renaissance construction was centered around the craft guilds,
mason, painters, carpenters, etc.  Without knowing precisely what you are
after, try googling medieval construction, medieval mason guilds, medieval
carpenter guilds and medieval painter guilds for images.

Job descriptions:
http://www.yorkguildofbuilding.org/html/body_medieval.html

Possibly useful:
Martin Cook, Medieval Bridges
Joann Jovinelly & Jason Netelkos, The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Guild

Bear

> Greetings, all. I realize this is a little off the wall, but does anyone
> have references they can point to for descriptions of medieval and
> renaissance architectural construction crews? I'm hoping for descriptions
> of building workers in large, populated areas (cities, preferably), but
> I'll take other descriptions as well. Text or paintings/artwork would both
> be fine. I'm hoping to find food-related references in these working
> conditions because I have a wacky idea I want to play with for a bit. I'll
> also take ideas on related areas I can look research if people have
> suggestions.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Iasmin
> Midrealm

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