Review: New Approaches to Medieval Architecture by Robert Bork, William Clark, Abby McGehee
Sarah Thompson
Book Review| September 01 2012 Review: New Approaches to Medieval Architecture, by Robert Bork, William Clark, and Abby McGehee McGehee, editors. Architecture AVISTA Studies in the History of Technology, Science, Art, Volume 8. Farnham, England, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011, 258 pp., 66 b/w illus. $119.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781409422280. Sarah Thompson Rochester Institute Technology Search for other works this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal Society Architectural Historians (2012) 71 (3): 416–418. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2012.71.3.416 Views Icon Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Get Permissions Cite Citation Thompson; McGehee. 1 2012; doi: Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Dropdown Menu input auto suggest filter your All ContentJournal bears a somewhat misleading title, as methodologies employed authors are not new broad sense term; most papers included collection—drawn from conference presentations at International Congress between 2007 2009—could be described positivist, relying on site-oriented, object-based examination. But if methods themselves entirely new, problems which they applied—and means applied—stretch boundaries field, questioning standard truths opening exciting directions exploration. The authors, who include both emerging senior scholars, demonstrate how fresh eyes technology can upend even deeply-entrenched conclusions. editors organized under four headings: master narratives patronage institutional context, workshop practices, technology. Nicola Camerlenghi begins part one with “The Longue Durée Life Buildings,”... You do currently have access content.
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