New Review

Donald Leech, review of Monckton, Linda, and Richard Morris, eds., Coventry: Medieval Art,
Architecture, and Archaeology in the City and its Vicinity. Series: The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XXXIII (Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2011)

The Medieval Review 12.11.13
 

New Reviews

Speculum 87 (3)

Anthony Quiney, review of Malcom Airs and P.S. Barnwell, eds., The Medieval Great House (Rewley House Studies in the Historic Environment 1) (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2011), 828-830.

Mailan S. Doquang, review of Robert Bork, The Geometry of Creation: Architectural Drawing and the Dynamics of Gothic Design (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 842-844.

Theodore Evergates, review of François Verdier, Saint-Ayoul de Provins: Un prieuré au temps des foires de Champagne (Langres: Dominique Guéniot, 2009), 933-934.

Brief notice of Pina Belli D'Elia and Emilia Pellegrino, eds., Le radici della cattedrale: Lo studio ed il restauro del succorpo nel contesto della fabbrica della Cattedrale di Bari, 940-941. 

New Review

Meredith Parsons Lillich, review of Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Stained Glass in The Netherlands before 1795: Part I - The North and Part II - The South (Corpus Vitrearum The Netherlands, IV) 2 vols (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011).

 

The Medieval Review 12.10.03

New edition of Gesta

Gesta 50 (2) has two articles with an architectural focus, and both take on iconic buildings: Bissera Pentcheva's "Hagia Sophia and Multisensory Aesthetics," 93-112, and Mailan Doquang's "The Lateral Chapels of Notre-Dame in Context," 137-162. 

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.