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This book charts the past, present, and future of studies on medieval technology, art, and craft practices. Inspired by Villard’s enigmatic portfolio of artistic and engineering drawings, this collection explores the multiple facets of medieval building represented in this manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr 19093).
The book’s eighteen essays and two introductions showcase traditional and emergent methods for the study of medieval craft, demonstrating how these diverse approaches collectively amplify our understanding about how medieval people built, engineered, and represented their world. Contributions range from the analysis of words and images in Villard’s portfolio, to the close analysis of masonry, technological marvels, and gothic architecture, pointing the way toward new avenues for future scholarship to explore.
Contributors are: Mickey Abel, Carl F. Barnes Jr., Robert Bork, George Brooks, Michael T. Davis, Amy Gillette, Erik Gustafson, Maile S. Hutterer, John James, William Sayers, Ellen Shortell, Alice Isabella Sullivan, Richard Alfred Sundt, Sarah Thompson, Steven A. Walton, Maggie M. Williams, Kathleen Wilson Ruffo, and Nancy Wu.
The book’s eighteen essays and two introductions showcase traditional and emergent methods for the study of medieval craft, demonstrating how these diverse approaches collectively amplify our understanding about how medieval people built, engineered, and represented their world. Contributions range from the analysis of words and images in Villard’s portfolio, to the close analysis of masonry, technological marvels, and gothic architecture, pointing the way toward new avenues for future scholarship to explore.
Contributors are: Mickey Abel, Carl F. Barnes Jr., Robert Bork, George Brooks, Michael T. Davis, Amy Gillette, Erik Gustafson, Maile S. Hutterer, John James, William Sayers, Ellen Shortell, Alice Isabella Sullivan, Richard Alfred Sundt, Sarah Thompson, Steven A. Walton, Maggie M. Williams, Kathleen Wilson Ruffo, and Nancy Wu.
Price: $205.00
Pages: 588
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art
Publication Date:
15 December 2022
ISBN: 9789004529090
Format: Hardcover
"This is a most worthwhile book. It contains a list of excellent papers that, collectively, offer as careful a synthesis of (pricipally American) scholarship on late medieval art, architecture and technology as one could hope for. The editing is sharp and the images in the book are, overall,
crisp and clear. The reprinting of various essays should, I believe, be seen as a strength rather than a weakness: the essays are carefully rethought and expanded, and presenting them here means that they will rightfully be read by the academic community at large rather than simply the former subscribers to AVISTA. This book will surely feature on many a graduate syllabus and should also feature on the shelves of scholars." Matthew M. Reeve, in Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 177.1 (2024).
George Brooks, Ph.D. (2003), Florida State University, is Professor of Humanities, Medieval Studies, and History of Science and Technology at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida. His interests include medieval technology and engineering, he has published several
articles on medieval mechanics.
Maile S. Hutterer, Ph.D. (2011), New York University, is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on French medieval architecture, and her publications include Framing the Church: The Social, Contextual, and Artistic Power of Gothic Buttresses (Penn State University Press, 2020).
Maile S. Hutterer, Ph.D. (2011), New York University, is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on French medieval architecture, and her publications include Framing the Church: The Social, Contextual, and Artistic Power of Gothic Buttresses (Penn State University Press, 2020).