Wednesday, March 30, 2011

New Books

Alicia Ancho Villanueva and Clara Fernández-Ladreda Aguadé, Portada de Santa Maria de Sangüesa:Imaginario románico en piedra (Pamplona: Fundácion para la Conservación del Patrimonio Histórico de Navarra, n.d.)

Margot E. Fassler, The Virgin at Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010)

Harris A. Kalligas, Monemvasia: A Byzantine City State (London: Routledge, 2010)

New Reviews

Speculum 86 (2)

Jane Hathaway, review of Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009) 511-513

Holly Flora, review of Christine Sciacca, Building the Medieval World (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010) 550-551

Roger J. Crum, review of Christine Smith and Joseph F. O'Connor, Building the Kingdom: Giannazzo Manetti on the Material and Spiritual Edifice (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in collaboration with Brepols, 2006) 551-553

Brief Notice
P.D.A. Harvey, Manors and Maps in Rural England, from the Tenth Century to the Seventeenth (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010) 579

Thursday, March 17, 2011

New Books

From Yale University Press:

Richard Fawcett, The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church (2011)

John Goodall, The English Castle 1066-1650 (2011)

Thomás Ó Carragáin, Churches in Early Medieval Ireland: Architecture, Ritual, and Memory (2011)

Philip Temple, Survey of London: The Charterhouse (2010)

Marvin Trachtenberg, Building in Time: From Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010)

Thursday, March 10, 2011

New Books

John Shannon Hendrix, Architecture as Cosmology: Lincoln Cathedral and English Gothic Architecture (New York: Peter Lang, 2011).

Henry Maguire and Roger S. Nelson, San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice (Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2010).

Saturday, March 5, 2011

New Reviews

Speculum 86 (1)

Stephen Murray, review of Carl F. Barnes, The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr 19093): A New Critical Edition and Color Facsimile (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009) 160-162

Christopher Dyer, review of Guy Beresford et. al., Caldecote: The Development and Desertion of a Medieval Village (Leeds: Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2009) 162-164

Mark Gardiner, review of Simon Blatherwick and Richard Bluer, Great Houses, Moats, and Mills on the South Bank of the Thames: Medieval and Tudor Southwark and Rotherhithe (London: Museum of London Archaeology, 2009) 165-166

David Lewis, review of David Bowsher et. al., The London Guildhall: An Archaeological History of a Neighbourhood from Early Medieval to Modern Times (London: Museum of London Archaeology, 2007) 166-168

Jill Caskey, review of Andrea Giorgi and Stefano Moscadelli, Construire una cattedrale: L'Opera di Santa Maria di Siena tra XII e XIV secolo (Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005) 194-196