A webinar discussion of the progress of restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral three years after the fire of 15 April 2019, with French architectural historian and renovation consultant Dany Sandron, along with AVISTA architectural historians involved with the work, Jennifer Feltman and Lindsay Cook. This event was jointly sponsored by the Valencia College East Campus Humanities … Continue Reading
©1991; REVISED, 1993; WEB VERSION 2003; REFORMATTED AND LIGHTLY EDITED 2014. Originally presented at the International Congress for Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, in 1993. This introduction is meant to be neither ground-breaking nor earth shattering; rather I plan to present the mechanical arts as they stood in medieval intellectual thought. The following papers in this … Continue Reading
What Did They Know and When did They Know It? Scholastic Interpretations of Architectural Dynamics. by Thomas Boothby and Steven Walton Presented at the AVISTA session at Kalamazoo, May 2006. Intro [slide[1]] Exploring medieval architecture is largely the domain of art and architectural historians, and historians of science have rarely looked into the field. If, … Continue Reading