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

New Reviews

Speculum 85 (4)

Denys Pringle, The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: a Corpus, 4: The Cities of Acre and Tyre, with Addenda and Corrigenda to Volumes I-III 112-114

Zoë Opačić, Prague and Bohemia: Medieval Art, Architecture, and Cultural Exchange in Central Europe 1055

Medieval Village Found?

Archaeology students in working in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales may have found evidence of the village of Whitelands, including a manor house and a mill, near the onetime natural harbor at Porthkerry. The village could have once been home to 60-70 residents, and likely lost its population as the harbor silted up in the 1300s.
BBC article

New Books

Angel Fernandez Collado, The Cathedral of Toledo (Cabildo Catedral Primada, 2009)

Maurizio Galletti, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore: Fede e spazio sacro (San Giorgio, 2010)

New Resource

The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations provides an easy way to look at borders, settlements, ecclesiastical provinces, and all kinds of other interesting information related to spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds. A team from Harvard completed the Mellon Foundation-funded project in May of this year.

New and Recent Books

Guy Beresford et.al., Caldecote: the Development and Desertion of a Hertfordshire Village (Leeds, Society for Medieval Archeology)

William Chester Jordan, A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century (Princeton University Press)

New Reviews

Speculum 85 (3)
Carolyn Marino Malone, Saint-Benigne de Dijon en l'an mil, "totius Gallae basilicis mirabilior": interprétation politique, liturgique, et théologique 709-711.

Alex Woodcock, Liminal Images: Aspects of Medieval Architectural Sculpture in the South of England from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries 753-755.