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.