Thursday, December 29, 2011

New Books

Robert Bork, ed. New Approaches to Medieval Architecture. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011.

Meredith Parsons Lillich. The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.

Enrico Pozzi. Alsace Gothique. Dijon: Faton, 2011.

Friday, November 4, 2011

New Review

Paul Courtney, review of Williams, Diane, M. and Kenyon, John R. eds, The Impact of the
Edwardian Castle in Wales. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010.

The Medieval Review 11.11.06

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

New Review

Pamela Patton, review of Nina Rowe, The Jew, the Cathedral, and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)

The Medieval Review

Thursday, October 6, 2011

New Reviews

Speculum 86 (4)

Charles Buchanan, review of Dorothy F. Glass, The Sculpture of Reform in North Italy, ca. 1095 - 1130: History and Patronage of Romanesque Facades (Vermont: Ashgate, 2010), 1074 - 1076.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

New Books

Claude Andrault-Schmidt, La cathédrale de Tours (La Creche, France: Geste, 2010)

Caroline Bruzelius and William Tronzo, Medieval Naples: An Architectural and Urban History (New York: Italica, 2011)

Monique Chatenet, Le gothique de la renaissance: IVe Rencontres d'architecture européene, colloque international juin 2007 (Paris: Picard, 2011)

Lori Ann Garner, Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011)

Iliana Kasarka, ed., Mise en oeuvre des portails gothiques: architecture et sculpture (Paris: Picard, 2011)

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

New reviews

Fassler, Margot. The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). Reviewed by Kirk Ambrose.
CAA Reviews Online

Gajewski, Alexandra. The Year 1300 and the Creation of a New European Architecture. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007). Reviewed by Stephen Murray.
CAA Reviews Online

Martin, Therese. Queen as King: Politics and Architectural Propaganda in Twelfth-Century Spain (Leiden: Brill, 2006). Reviewed by Elizabeth den Hartog.
CAA Reviews Online

McLean, Alick M. Prato: Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City-State (New Haven: Tale University Press, 2010). Reviewed by Charles S. Buchanan.
CAA Reviews Online

Reeve, Matthew, ed. Reading Gothic Architecture (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008). Reviewed by Stephen Murray.
CAA Reviews Online


Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of the Architecture and Its Culture (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007).

Kahlil, Abdallah. The Sultan Hasan Complex in Cairo, 1357-1364: A Case Study of the Formation of Mamluk Style (Würzburg: Ergon in Kommission; Beirut: Orient-Institut Beirut, 2008).

Rabbat, Nasser. Mamluk History through Architecture: Building, Culture, and Politics in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (London; I.B. Tauris, 2010).

All reviewed by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, Art Bulletin 93 (3), 374-378.

New Books

From Ashgate:

Robert Bork, The Geometry of Creation: Architectural Drawing and the Dynamics of Gothic Design, September 2011

Charlotte Stanford, Commemorating the Dead in Late Medieval Strasbourg: The Cathedral's Book of Donors and Its Use (1320-1521), November 2011