Tuesday, December 10, 2013

New article on Gothic

Tallon, Andrew. "An Architecture of Perfection." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 72 (4): 530-554.

New Reviews

Speculum 88 (4)

Eric Fernie, review of Rodwell, Warwick, The Archaeology of Churches (Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2012), 1151-1152.

William Chester Jordan, review of Rowe, Nina, The Jew, the Cathedral, and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 1154-1156.

Charles T. Little, review of Stratford, Neil, Brigitte Maurice-Chabal, David Walsh, et.al., Corpus de la sculpture de Cluny, 1: Les parties orientales de la grande église Cluny III (Paris: Picard, 2010), 1172-1173.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 72 (4)

Jeffrey A.K. Miller, review of Richard Fawcett, The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church, 1100-1560 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 584-587.

Matthew Johnson, review of Goodall, John, The English Castle, 1066-1650 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 587-588.

Monday, October 28, 2013

New Review

Virginia Raguin, review of Jung, Jacqueline E., The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and
Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, ca.1200-1400

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
The Medieval Review
TMR 13.10.26

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Latest Issue of Speculum

The most recent edition of Speculum includes an article and several book reviews of interest to architectural historians:

Sharon Farmer, "Aristocratic Power and the 'Natural' Landscape: The Garden Park at Hesdin, ca. 1291-1302," 644-680.

Megan Cassidy-Welsh, review of Mick Aston, Monasteries in the Landscape (Rev. ed. Stroud, UK: Amberley, 2009), 753-754.

William Tronzo, review of Marie Tanner, Jerusalem on the Hill: Rome and the Vision of Saint Peter's Basilica in the Renaissance (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History 60) (London: Harvey Miller; Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), 856-857.

Monday, September 9, 2013

New Review

The Art Bulletin 95 (3) 2013

Jacqueline Jung, review of Herbert Kessler  and David Nirenberg, eds., Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from Catacombs to Colonialism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) and Nina Rowe, The Jew, the Cathedral, and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 488-493.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

New Review

Speculum 88 (2)

Julian Gardner, review of Francesco Benelli, The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012): 491-492.


Saturday, June 22, 2013

New Reviews


Speculum 88 (1)

Paul Arthur, review of Caroline Bruzelius and William Tronzo, Medieval Naples: An Architectural and Urban History, 400-1400 (New York: Italica Press, 2011): 265-266.

Oliver Creighton, review of Anne-Marie Flambard Héricher, Scribla: la fin d'un château d'origine normande en Calabre. Collection de l'École francaise de Rome 421 (Rome: École française de Rome, 2010): 291-292

Kelly M. Wickham-Crowley, review of Lori Ann Garner, Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011): 292-294.

Colum Hourihane, review of Ethan Matt Kavaler, Renaissance Gothic: The Authority of Ornament, 1470-1540 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012): 316-318.

Rachel Dressler, review of Janet Snyder, Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France: Appearance, Materials, and Significance (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011): 340-341.

Colin Breen, Dunlace Castle: History and Archaeology (Dublin, Four Courts Press: 2012): 369. (short notice)

Friday, June 14, 2013

New Review

Fredric Cheyette, review of Flambard-Héricher, Anne Marie, and Jacques Le Maho, eds. Château, ville et pouvoir au Moyen Âge. Series: Tables rondes du CRAHM, 7. Caen: Publications du CRAHM.

The Medieval Review 13.06.17

Monday, March 25, 2013

New Review

The Medieval Review

Gallet, Yves, ed.  Ex Quadris Lapidibus: La pierre et sa mise en oeuvre dans l'art medievale.  Series: Mélanges en histoire de l'art offerts à Eliane Vergnolle (Brepols: 2011). Reviewed by Stephen Murray.

TMR 13.03.16

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

New Reviews

Speculum has a number of architecture or architecture-related books reviewed in the latest issue (vol. 87, no. 4):

Slobodan Ćurčić, Architecture in the Balkans: from Diocletian to Süleyman the Magnificent (Mew Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).  Reviewed by Vasileios Marinis.  1178-1179.

Deborah Mouskopf Deliyannis, Ravenna in Late Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).  Reviewed by Andrew Gillett.  1182-1183.

Penny Hebgin-Barnes, The Medieval Stained Glass of Cheshire (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Great Britain, Summary Catalogue 9) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).  Reviewed by Virginia Raguin.  1210-1212.

Pierre-Yves Laffont, Chateaux du Vivarais: Pouvoirs et peuplement en France méridionale du Haut Moyen Âge au XIIe siècle (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009).  Reviewed by Melena Hope.

Olson, Vibeke, ed., Working with Limestone: The Science, Technology, and Art of Medieval Limestone Monuments (AVISTA studies in the History of Medieval Science, Technology, and Art 7) (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011). Reviewed by Michael T. Davis. 1235-1237.

Stalley, Roger, ed.  Limerick and South-West Ireland: Medieval Art and Architecture (British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 34) (Leeds: Maney, 2011). Reviewed by Peter Fergusson. 1255-1256.