New Review

Donald Leech, review of Monckton, Linda, and Richard Morris, eds., Coventry: Medieval Art,
Architecture, and Archaeology in the City and its Vicinity. Series: The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XXXIII (Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2011)

The Medieval Review 12.11.13
 

New Reviews

Speculum 87 (3)

Anthony Quiney, review of Malcom Airs and P.S. Barnwell, eds., The Medieval Great House (Rewley House Studies in the Historic Environment 1) (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2011), 828-830.

Mailan S. Doquang, review of Robert Bork, The Geometry of Creation: Architectural Drawing and the Dynamics of Gothic Design (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 842-844.

Theodore Evergates, review of François Verdier, Saint-Ayoul de Provins: Un prieuré au temps des foires de Champagne (Langres: Dominique Guéniot, 2009), 933-934.

Brief notice of Pina Belli D'Elia and Emilia Pellegrino, eds., Le radici della cattedrale: Lo studio ed il restauro del succorpo nel contesto della fabbrica della Cattedrale di Bari, 940-941. 

New Review

Meredith Parsons Lillich, review of Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Stained Glass in The Netherlands before 1795: Part I - The North and Part II - The South (Corpus Vitrearum The Netherlands, IV) 2 vols (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011).

 

The Medieval Review 12.10.03

New edition of Gesta

Gesta 50 (2) has two articles with an architectural focus, and both take on iconic buildings: Bissera Pentcheva's "Hagia Sophia and Multisensory Aesthetics," 93-112, and Mailan Doquang's "The Lateral Chapels of Notre-Dame in Context," 137-162. 

New Reviews

Speculum 87 (2)
Mary E. Wolinski, review of Margot Fassler, The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), 547-548
Gerald B. Guest, review of Elizabeth C. Pastan and Sylvie Balcon, Les vitraux de choeur dela cathédrale de Troyes (XIIIe siècle) (Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2006), 594-595
David K. Pettegrew, review of Luca Zavagno, Cities in Transition: Urbanism in Byzantium between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (AD 500-900) (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009), 628-630.

Call for Papers

The Forum Kunst des Mittelalters/Medieval Art will take place in Freiburg-im-Breisgau from September 18-21, 2013.  The call for papers has been posted, and 300-word abstracts are due by August 31, 2012.  Several sessions are of particular interest for architectural historians, including "Visual Media and the Medieval Culture of Architectural Knowledge" and "New Research on Strasbourg Cathedral." 

Carl Barnes

Carl Barnes, best known in the world of medieval architecture for his decades of scholarship on Villard de Honnecourt, has passed away.  An obituary by Harry Titus has been posted to the ICMA website.

Professor Barnes's website on Villard can be found here.

New Review

Caroline Bruzelius, review of Robert Bork, William Clark, and Abby McGehee, New Approaches to Medieval Architecture (AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Science, Technology, and Art) (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)
The Medieval Review 12.03.25

Krak des Chevaliers Threatened

From medievalists.net: the town below the famed crusader castle is being shelled by the Syrian government in retaliation for anti-government uprisings. Video shows buildings in the town damaged by shells; any possible damage to the castle is unclear at this point.

Building a Medieval Monastery

Bert Geurten is sponsoring the construction of a medieval monastery using traditional methods and materials near Messkirch, Germany. The plan is based on the ideal plan for the monastery of Saint Gall. The site is currently being prepared, with construction planned to commence in 2013; the project should take some forty years to complete, based on current estimates.
Spiegel article
Project website

New Review

Gregor A. Kalas, review of Hendrik Dey, The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial
Rome AD 271-855 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

The Medieval Review 12.03.20

Fire at Krasna Horka

The fourteenth-century Slovakian castle of Krasna Horka suffered extensive damage due to an accidental fire, with the castle's roof being completely destroyed. Funding for the castle's restoration is currently being coordinated.

New article: historiographical consideration of Krautheimer

Catherine Carver McCurrach, "Renovatio Reconsidered: Richard Krautheimer and the Iconography of Architecture," Gesta 50 (1), 41-69.

New Reviews

Speculum 87 (1)

Beat Brenk, review of Michael Greenhalgh, Marble Past, Monumental Present: Building with Antiquities in the Mediaeval Mediterranean (The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies, and Cultures 400-1500, 80) (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009), 221-222.

Matthew M. Reeve, review of Warwick Rodwell and Richard Mortimer, eds., Westminster Abbey Chapter House: The History, Art and Architecture of "a Chapter House beyond Compare" (London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 2010), 273-275.

New Resource for Gothic Architecture in Ireland

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College, Dublin, is sponsoring Gothic Past as part of a research project funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Collections available through the database include photographs by Roger Stalley and the O'Donovan molding profiles archive.

New Review

Thomas Granier, review of Caroline Bruzelius and WIlliam Tronzo, Medieval Naples: An Architectural and Urban History, 400 - 1400 (New York: Italica Press, 2011).

The Medieval Review 12.02.05

Ozark Medieval Fortress Closed for 2012

...reports the Arkansas Blog.