Conocimiento, traza e ingenio en la arquitectura valenciana del siglo XV

In the last decades historiography of gothic architecture in the Crown of Aragon has focused on buildings monographs, documentary research and technical change in stone building. On the other hand, historians of technology have given special attention to the issue of innovation and its diffusion in the late Middle Ages, considering building techniques as a particular field of research. This essay studies transmission of technical knowledge in building trades in order to explain architectural changes in an outstanding environment of innovation such as the kingdom of Valencia in the 14th and 15th centuries, especially from 1430 onwards. Having account of previous research and some cases of study, well documented by abundant written sources, this article addresses questions as mobility of master builders, transfer of models and exempla, architectural design and the technical education of building crafts.