Sketch of Medieval Saint Paul's for Sale

A Wenceslaus Hollar sketch of (pre-Great Fire) Saint Paul's Cathedral, London, will be auctioned by Sotheby's on July 6.
Link to article (includes photograph of sketch)

New Books

David Abulafia and Massimo Naro, Il Duomo di Monreale: Lo splendore dei mosaici. Itacalibri (Libreria Editrice Vaticana), 2009.
Alberta Campitelli, Gli Horti dei papi: I giardini vaticani dal Medioevo al Novecento. Jaca Book (Musei Vaticani), 2009.
Vincenzo Vaccaro, ed., La Chiesa di San Marco a Firenze: Una lunga stagione di restauri. Polistampa, 2009.
Ann Marie Yasin, Saints and Church Architecture in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, and Community. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Canterbury's Westgate Tower Museum to Remain Open

Businessman Charles Lambie has donated a quarter of a million pounds to the site, and has leased Westgate Tower from the city. Lambie hopes to increase the number of visitors to the medieval city gate by improving access and updating the facilities.
BBC link

Jenny Alexander (University of Warwick) on Masons' Marks

Link to Physorg.com article

New Reviews

Speculum 85 (2)

James R. Lindow, The Renaissance Palace in Florence: Magnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth-Century Italy 424.
Alick M. McLean, Prato: Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City-State 435.
Matthew M. Reeve, ed., Reading Gothic Architecture 495 (brief notice).

Medieval Hall in Galway open to the Public

A hall built by Richard de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster (1259-1326), has opened to the public for the first time. The hall, adjoining castle, and surrounding area have been the subject of archaeological excavations since their discovery under the Custom House (then under restoration) in the 1990s.
Story in the Irish Times

Upcoming Conferences

Medieval Academy Annual Meeting, April 14-16 2011
- accepting submissions until May 15, 2010


Fourth International Colloquium Compostela, October 12-15, 2010
Theme: Pilgrimages and Pilgrims as Peacemakers
- accepting submissions until July 15