Monday, March 25, 2013

New Review

The Medieval Review

Gallet, Yves, ed.  Ex Quadris Lapidibus: La pierre et sa mise en oeuvre dans l'art medievale.  Series: Mélanges en histoire de l'art offerts à Eliane Vergnolle (Brepols: 2011). Reviewed by Stephen Murray.

TMR 13.03.16

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

New Reviews

Speculum has a number of architecture or architecture-related books reviewed in the latest issue (vol. 87, no. 4):

Slobodan Ćurčić, Architecture in the Balkans: from Diocletian to Süleyman the Magnificent (Mew Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).  Reviewed by Vasileios Marinis.  1178-1179.

Deborah Mouskopf Deliyannis, Ravenna in Late Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).  Reviewed by Andrew Gillett.  1182-1183.

Penny Hebgin-Barnes, The Medieval Stained Glass of Cheshire (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Great Britain, Summary Catalogue 9) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).  Reviewed by Virginia Raguin.  1210-1212.

Pierre-Yves Laffont, Chateaux du Vivarais: Pouvoirs et peuplement en France méridionale du Haut Moyen Âge au XIIe siècle (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009).  Reviewed by Melena Hope.

Olson, Vibeke, ed., Working with Limestone: The Science, Technology, and Art of Medieval Limestone Monuments (AVISTA studies in the History of Medieval Science, Technology, and Art 7) (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011). Reviewed by Michael T. Davis. 1235-1237.

Stalley, Roger, ed.  Limerick and South-West Ireland: Medieval Art and Architecture (British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 34) (Leeds: Maney, 2011). Reviewed by Peter Fergusson. 1255-1256.


Friday, November 16, 2012

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
 

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

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. 

Friday, October 5, 2012

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

Thursday, August 9, 2012

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. 

Thursday, June 28, 2012

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.