Alan M. Stahl
Barrel Vault
Bishop's Palace
Book III
Buttress Pier
Carpet Page
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Crossing Pier
Eclipse Instruments
Elevation Drawings
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Equilateral Arches
Flyer Arch
Folio 12r
Folio 18v
geometry in art
gothic architecture studies
Gothic Spires
historical building techniques
Janet Snyder
Jennifer S. Alexander
John North
Malcolm Thurlby
medieval engineering
medieval technology research applications
Nave Aisle Window
Nigel Hiscock
Openwork Spire
Patron Saint's Feast
Paul J. Gans
Reims Cathedral
Renaud Beffeyte
Robert Bork
Robert D. Stevick
Roland Bechmann
Saint Bertrand De Comminges
scientific measurement medieval
South Nave Aisle
Stephen C. Mccluskey
technological innovation history
Vesica Piscis
Villard De Honnecourt
Villard's Drawings
Villard's Portfolio
Villard's Sketch
Wesley M. Stevens
William W. Clark
Wright Brothers
Product details
- ISBN 9780754609292
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Aug 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Villard's Legacy is in memory of the celebrated iconoclastic historian, Jean Gimpel, and represents a fundamental contribution to the new AVISTA series with Ashgate Publishing. AVISTA was the brainchild of Gimpel, a genius at making the right people meet to advance knowledge through a confluence of ideas drawn equally from the practical and scholarly domains. Sixteen papers and a tribute to Gimpel underscore this confluence of technology, science and art within medieval culture. Appropriately, six papers offer new interpretations on aspects of Villard de Honnecourt's portfolio, which Gimpel rightly recognized and promoted as a unique and precious record of pre-modern technology and culture. This thirteenth-century manuscript is now known to a wider public as the earliest testimony left by a master builder in Gothic Europe. Of particular significance, for the first time in eight centuries, a Compagnon du Devoir, initiated in the same oral tradition as Villard, opens the door to interpreting these remarkable drawings. Three papers address previously ignored aspects in the construction of French and English Gothic churches, from the engineering of aerodynamic spires, to the elastic materials of vault webbing, to the social conventions of formal design. Three other contributors treat essential elements of a broader technological culture, such as the horse harness and the minting of coins, as well as the applicability of medieval technology to the modern world, in particular third world countries, a project pioneered by Gimpel. Four papers conclude the volume by treating the sciences of measure and their cultural expression in medieval Europe, embracing both the concepts of space and time, geometry as a mathematical discipline, and the graphic expression of scientific data. These interdisciplinary studies are comprehensive in chronological and geographic range, extending from the 8th to 15th centuries, from Ireland across Europe.
Marie-Therese Zenner Marie-Therese Zenner, Charles Stegeman, Nigel Hiscock,, William W. Clark, Jennifer S. Alexander, Janet Snyder, Renaud Beffeyte, Roland Bechmann, Robert Bork, Malcolm Thurlby, Paul J. Gans, Alan M. Stahl, Stephen C. McCluskey, Robert D. Stevick, Wesley M. Stevens, John North.
