Villard de honnecourt biography of michael

  • The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt [Book Review].
  • This book charts the past, present, and future of studies on medieval technology, art, and craft practices.
  • Chapter III is a new biography of Villard that challenges the many wild speculations of the last century and a half about Villard, separating obvious fiction.

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    Review

    Winner, CAA Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant 'The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt is a very thorough and systematic analysis of a book of which it fryst vatten fair to say, with Barnes:'The Villard Portfolio fryst vatten among the rarest and most famous of Gothic survivals' (p. 22). The work fryst vatten excellent.' ISIS ’Whatever Villard's vocation, one of the admirable accomplishments of this book, its color reproductions, and Barnes's meticulous descriptions of the portfolio's pages, re-focuses appreciative attention on his "extraordinary skill" as a draftsman...’ Michael T. Davis in The Medieval Review ’It is a tremendously useful book... The color photos of each page (as well as the cover) and the painstakingly prepared descriptions and remarks that accompany each image are perhaps the volume’s greatest contribution. The matter of color fryst vatten not a minor one... The color plates are a revelation.’ H-France ’... a wonderfully rich and informative volume, and a great scholarly achievement.’ Medium

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    Michael S Fulton, Artillery in the age of the Crusades: Siege warfare and the development of trebuchet technology (Purton)

    Michael S Fulton

    Artillery in the age of the Crusades: Siege warfare and the development of trebuchet technology

    (Brill, 2018) 514 pp. $156.00/€130.00

    Medieval artillery has been a subject of fascination since the nineteenth century. The interest is shared by film-makers, hobbyists, teachers of physics, archaeologists and the occasional historian. Not all have applied a rigorous approach to the evidence and frequently the result has been a fantasy. Too often, even professionals have reproduced without further examination the unproven hypotheses that haunt the subject: Michael Fulton’s new book will give no one any excuse to get it wrong in future.
    Fulton studies the use of artillery between 1097 and 1291 in the Middle East combining archaeological evidence with critical examination of the historical sources. Denied access to many key sites by war in Syr

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    Michael Davis

    The Worlds of Villard de Honnecourt: The Portfolio, Medieval Technology, and Gothic Monuments

    The Worlds of Villard de Honnecourt: The Portfolio, Medieval Technology, and Gothic Monuments, 2023

    Construction is the architect's mother tongue; the architect is a poet who thinks and speaks in c... more Construction is the architect's mother tongue; the architect is a poet who thinks and speaks in construction.1 My essay builds on the insights of William W. Clark and Carl F. Barnes, Jr. in this volume that pays tribute to their contributions to the history of medieval architecture.2 Both were notably alert to the processes of construction that brought buildings into being. Clark's body of scholarship embraces Gothic architecture in its manifold complexity, setting it within the large-scale context of the contemporary intellectual landscape, sorting out construction histories, or extracting the manifestation of historical memory from form and materials.3 He ha