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

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).

"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).