Conservation Project for a Deserted Medieval Settlement Receives Funds

Several structures (the chapel of Saint Lawrence, a dovecote, and a bridge) outside of Barforth (near Darlington, Co Durham), part of an abandoned medieval village, are slated for conservation work in the upcoming months. The three structures are currently on the "Heritage at Risk" register maintained by English Heritage.
Link to Peterborough Today article

Kalamazoo Programs Are Here

For those attending the International Congress on Medieval Studies this year, sessions of interest for architectural historians include:
Session 55 (Thursday 10:00): "Feminist Approaches to Medieval Art: Islam, Byzantium, and the West"
Session 130 (Thursday 3:30): "The Year 1200"
Session 183 (Thursday 7:30): "Capetians II: Capetians and Saint-Denis"
Session 188 (Thursday 7:30): "Sculpture and the Medieval City"
Session 210 (Friday 10:00): "Medieval Architecture and Glass in Memory of Anne Prache I"
Session 250 (Friday 10:00): "New Directions in European Castle Research"
Session 269 (Friday 1:30): "The Crusades II"
Session 270 (Friday 1:30): "Cistercians in France and Flanders"
Session 271 (Friday 1:30): "Medieval Architecture and Glass in Memory of Anne Prache II"
Session 313 (Friday 1:30): "Burial ad Sanctos in the Early Middle Ages: Architecture as Stagecraft"
Session 338 (Friday 3:30): "Medieval Architecture and Glass in Memory of Anne Prache III"
Session 345 (Friday 3:30): "European Monasticism During and After the Gregorian Reform"
Session 346 (Friday 3:30): "The Archeology of Early Modern Europe II: Early Medieval Hillforts in Central Europe: Strongholds or Central Places?"
Session 377 (Friday 3:30): "Galicia and Santiago between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Material Culture and Pilgrimage in a Period of Transition"
Session 475 (Saturday 1:30): "Painted Architecture and Sculpture: General Problems and Issues"
Session 560 (Sunday 8:30): "York Minster: a Cathedral in Context"
Session 593 (Sunday 10:00): "Thinking Small: Scale and Meaning in Medieval Art II"

New Books

Recent releases in areas of interest:

Glyn Copack, Abbeys and Priories (Amberley)

Glyn Coppack, Fountains Abbey (Amberley)

John Julius Norwich et. al., Croatia: Aspects of Art, Architecture, and Cultural Heritage (Frances Lincoln)

David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth-Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press)

Cordelia Watt and Janis Elliott, eds., Art and Architecture in Naples, 1266-1713: New Approaches (Wiley-Blackwell)

In more castle news...

Part of Rochester Castle's outer bailey has collapsed due to rainfall.
BBC Report

New Discoveries at Prague Castle

Ongoing excavation at Prague Castle has led to the discovery of more evidence about the early state of the castle's defenses. Archaeologists working in an area between the castle's second and third courtyards have uncovered part of the castle's original moat and a tenth or eleventh century rampart; these new finds complement what was previously known about the castle's early fortifications.
Link to story in Prague Monitor