Villard's Legacy

Studies in Medieval Technology, Science and Art in Memory of Jean Gimpel
Herausgeber: Zenner, Marie-Thérèse

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Produktbeschreibung

Villard's Legacy is a volume in memory of the celebrated iconoclastic historian, Jean Gimpel. AVISTA was Gimpel's brainchild, and the contributions here reflect his concern to elucidate the interactions of technology, science and art within medieval culture. The first papers offer new interpretations of 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, a Compagnon du Devoir initiated in the same oral tradition as Villard opens the door to interpreting these remarkable drawings. Following studies address the construction of English and French Gothic churches, the technological culture of the medieval world, and the sciences of measure and their cultural expression.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9780754609292
• ISBN-10: 0754609294
• Artikelnr.: 47709502

Autorenporträt

Marie-Thérèse Zenner

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Marie-Thérèse Zenner; In Memoriam Jean Gimpel
1918-96
Carl F. Barnes
Jr.; Essay: Jean Gimpel and the legacy of medieval technology
Charles Stegeman; Bibliography of Jean Gimpel; Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt
selected folios. Part I Art And Architecture: Architectural geometry and the portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt
Nigel Hiscock; Reims cathedral in the portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt
William W. Clark; Villard de Honnecourt and masons' marks
Jennifer S. Alexander; Costumes in the portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt
Janet Snyder; The oral tradition and Villard de Honnecourt
Renaud Beffeyte; The saracen's sepulchre: an interpretation of folio 6r in the portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt
Roland Bechmann; Rock
spires
paper: technical aspects of gothic spire construction
Robert Bork; The use of tufa webbing and wattle centering in English vaults down to 1340
Malcolm Thurlby. Part II Science And Technology: The medieval horse harness: revolution or evolution? A case study in technological change
Paul J. Gans; Technological innovation and control at the medieval Venetian mint
Alan M. Stahl; Astronomy
time
and churches in the early middle ages
Stephen C. McCluskey; The art of radically coherent geometry
Robert D. Stevick; Euclidean geometry in the early middle ages: a preliminary reassessment
Wesley M. Stevens; Diagram and thought in medieval science
John North; Index.