New Books

From Yale University Press:

Richard Fawcett, The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church (2011)

John Goodall, The English Castle 1066-1650 (2011)

Thomás Ó Carragáin, Churches in Early Medieval Ireland: Architecture, Ritual, and Memory (2011)

Philip Temple, Survey of London: The Charterhouse (2010)

Marvin Trachtenberg, Building in Time: From Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010)

New Books

John Shannon Hendrix, Architecture as Cosmology: Lincoln Cathedral and English Gothic Architecture (New York: Peter Lang, 2011).

Henry Maguire and Roger S. Nelson, San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice (Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2010).

New Reviews

Speculum 86 (1)

Stephen Murray, review of Carl F. Barnes, The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr 19093): A New Critical Edition and Color Facsimile (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009) 160-162

Christopher Dyer, review of Guy Beresford et. al., Caldecote: The Development and Desertion of a Medieval Village (Leeds: Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2009) 162-164

Mark Gardiner, review of Simon Blatherwick and Richard Bluer, Great Houses, Moats, and Mills on the South Bank of the Thames: Medieval and Tudor Southwark and Rotherhithe (London: Museum of London Archaeology, 2009) 165-166

David Lewis, review of David Bowsher et. al., The London Guildhall: An Archaeological History of a Neighbourhood from Early Medieval to Modern Times (London: Museum of London Archaeology, 2007) 166-168

Jill Caskey, review of Andrea Giorgi and Stefano Moscadelli, Construire una cattedrale: L'Opera di Santa Maria di Siena tra XII e XIV secolo (Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005) 194-196

Working Drawings at Binham Priory?

Volunteers for the Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey have found large drawings of arcs and lines marked by dividers inscribed on a wall of Binham Priory. Matthew Champion, project director of the NMGS, suggests that these are working drawings, perhaps of the building's west front. Binham priory's mid-thirteenth century facade was among the first in England to incorporate bar tracery.

Eastern Daily Press article
BBC News article with video

Oleg Grabar, 1929-2011

Professor Oleg Grabar, world-reknowned historian of Islamic art and architecture, passed away yesterday morning in Princeton. Grabar had been an emeritus of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 1998; he joined the Institute in 1990 after retiring from his position as Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University.
Oleg Grabar's IAS page

New Books

Anne-Marie Carment-Lanfry, La Cathédrale de Notre-Dame de Rouen (Pulications des Universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2010)

Claude Gauvard and Joël Laitier, Notre-Dame de Paris: cathédrale médiévale (Chene, 2010)

Medieval Wall Painting Uncovered at Llancarfan

Fifteenth century paintings showing Saint George and the Dragon and Death and the Gallant have been uncovered on the walls of the church of St. Cadoc in Llancarfan, Wales. The paintings, which date c.1480, have been hidden by limewash since the Reformation.
Wales Online