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.