The thesis concerns itself with an analysis of selected primary sources from late medieval church building sites in Slovene lands. Our selection of source material was limited to the period between the late 15th century and predominantly the first half of the 16th century, and to the area of the former Inner Austrian lands in what is today Slovenia. The introduction in the first chapter is followed by a short review of relevant literature. The second chapter is dedicated to an examination of some of the more important primary sources for late medieval church building in Central Europe – the regulations of stonemasons’ (and builders’) brotherhoods of the latter half of the 15th century. This is followed in the third chapter by an analysis of selected primary sources from church building sites of the late 15th and mainly the first half of the 16th century in Slovene lands (and in immediate proximity). We categorised the selected sources by type into two groups, namely, building contracts on the one hand and building accounts on the other. Among the contracts for the construction or modification of church buildings, we specifically analyse three surviving documents, also including their transcripts in the appendix, and among the building accounts, we focus on one account book (register), excerpts from which are likewise included in the appendix. In the last chapter, we underline some observations about the building conditions on late medieval church construction sites in Slovene lands on the basis of the analysed sources. We focus on information pertaining to work dynamics at a building site, specifically the roles of various workers, involved in building work, as well as the question of contract values and costs that accompanied such projects.
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