New reviews

Fassler, Margot. The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). Reviewed by Kirk Ambrose.
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Gajewski, Alexandra. The Year 1300 and the Creation of a New European Architecture. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007). Reviewed by Stephen Murray.
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Martin, Therese. Queen as King: Politics and Architectural Propaganda in Twelfth-Century Spain (Leiden: Brill, 2006). Reviewed by Elizabeth den Hartog.
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McLean, Alick M. Prato: Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City-State (New Haven: Tale University Press, 2010). Reviewed by Charles S. Buchanan.
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Reeve, Matthew, ed. Reading Gothic Architecture (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008). Reviewed by Stephen Murray.
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Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of the Architecture and Its Culture (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007).

Kahlil, Abdallah. The Sultan Hasan Complex in Cairo, 1357-1364: A Case Study of the Formation of Mamluk Style (Würzburg: Ergon in Kommission; Beirut: Orient-Institut Beirut, 2008).

Rabbat, Nasser. Mamluk History through Architecture: Building, Culture, and Politics in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (London; I.B. Tauris, 2010).

All reviewed by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, Art Bulletin 93 (3), 374-378.

New Books

From Ashgate:

Robert Bork, The Geometry of Creation: Architectural Drawing and the Dynamics of Gothic Design, September 2011

Charlotte Stanford, Commemorating the Dead in Late Medieval Strasbourg: The Cathedral's Book of Donors and Its Use (1320-1521), November 2011