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1999 -- 34^th International Congress
Session 178 Schneider Room 1140	Wood I: Timber Resources: Medieval Woodland Ecology Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Lynn T. Courtenay, Univ. of Wisconsin--Whitewater Presider: Lynn T. Courtenay Medieval Woodland Resources AD 700-1200: Ecology and Management: Textual Evidence Jeanne Schock, Univ. of Toronto Panel Discussion: Dendrochronology and Woodland Resources Nathaniel Alcock, Warwick Univ., UK; Daniel Miles, Oxford Dendrochronology Lab; Patrick Hoffsummer, Univ. of Liège; W. Gavin Simpson, Nottingham Univ.
Session 231 Schneider Room 1140	Wood II: Timber Building Techniques, Working with Wood Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Lynn T. Courtenay, Univ. of Wisconsin--Whitewater Presider: W. Gavin Simpson, Univ. of Nottingham The Chapter House Roof, York Minster Julian Munby, Oxford Archaeological Unit Arabic Assembly Marks: A New Dimension in Early English Carpentry Daniel Miles, Oxford Dendrochronology Lab Wood: Its Choice and Utilization for Civil and Military Sources Renaud Beffeyte, ARMÉDIÉVAL, France
Session 284 Schneider Room 1140	Wood III: Medieval Buildings: The Surviving Evidence Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Lynn T. Courtenay, Univ. of Wisconsin--Whitewater Presider: Chris Currie, Institute of Historical Research, London Univ. Medieval Timber Buildings and Social History: Cruck Construction in Medieval Houses: Structure and Dating Nathaniel Alcok, Univ. of Warwick Iron Bars and Ball-Flowers, Dendrochronology and Documents: A Critical Review of the Tower and Spire of Salisbury Cathedral W. Gavin Simpson, Nottingham Univ. Estimating the Weight of the Timber Scaffolding in the Spire of Salisbury Cathedral. A Richard Jones, AVISTA
Session 338 Schneider Room 1140	Wood IV: Medieval Roofs Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Lynn T. Courtenay, Univ. of Wisconsin--Whitewater Presider: Nathaniel Alcock, Univ. of Warwick Romanesque Common Tie-Beam roofs: Boscherville, Jumièges, and Soignies Lynn Courtenay, Univ. of Wisconsin--Whitewater The Evolution of Roof Carpentry from the Loire to the Meuse: Recent Typology and Dendrochronology Research Patrick Hoffsummer, Univ. of Liège Re-Thinking Base Crucks and Short Principles: Chronology and Distribution Chris Currie, Institutite for Historical Research, Univ. of London
Session 394 Schneider Room 1140	Stone I: Resources and Technology Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: William W. Clark, Queen's College, CUNY Presider: William W. Clark Masons and Mythology: Observations on the Art of Stoneworking in Medieval Ireland Roger Stalley, Trinity College, Dublin On the Road Again: Limestone Sculpture in Twelfth-Century France Janet Snyder, West Virginia Univ. Limestone and Chalk from Medieval Monuments in the Paris Basin CANCELLED Annie Blanc, Centre de Recherches des Monuments Hitoriques The Clerestory of Notre-Dame of Paris: Analysis of the Stones Stephen Murray, Columbia Univ. Discussant: Jean M. French, Bard College
Session 447 Schneider Room 1140	Stone II: Techniques of Stonecarving Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: William W. Clark, Queen's College and Graduate Center, CUNY Presider: William W. Clark The Analysis of Romanesqe Architectural Sculpture: Verifying the Steps of a Methodology Danielle V. Johnson, International Center of Medieval Art Reims Cathedral Stone: A Critical Study and Recent Observations CANCELLED Bruno Decrock, Conservation des Monuments Historiques, Chamapgne-Ardennes Discussion and Demonstrtion of Stonecutting Tools and Techniques Iris Seyler, Sculptor, and Elmar Henrich, York Univ.

1998 -- 33^rd International Congress Arithmetic, Number, Measure. And the Building Arts
Session 198 Schneider Room 1140	Arithmetic, Number, Measure I Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Jens Ulff-Møller, Univ. of Oregon Presider: Warren Sanderson, Concordia University Numeracy in Early Medieval Schools John Contreni, Purdue Univ. Arithmetic in Measurement Jens Ulff-Møller Counting and Reckoning in the Medieval and Early Modern Economy Harald Witthöfft, Univ. Gesamthochschule, Siegen Administrative Calculation in Holland Dick E. H. deBoer, Rijksuniversiteit Gröningen
Session 246 Schneider Room 1140	Arithmetic, Number, Measure II Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Jens Ulff-Møller, Univ. of Oregon Presider: Jens Ulff-Møller Setting the Dimensions of Irish Stone Crosses Robert Stevick, Univ. of Washington Celtic and Basque Methods of Calculation Carol Justus, Univ. of Texas-Austin The Duodecimal System in Charles de Bovelles "Liber de Duodecim Numeris, 1510" Tamara D. V. Albertini, Univ. of Hawaii Gleanings from the Building Accounts of Westminster Abbey 1253 A. Richard Jones, Los Altos, CA
Session 294 Schneider Room 1140	Measure in Architecture Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Jens Ulff-Møller, Univ. of Oregon Presider: Michael T. Davis, Mt. Holyoke College Platonic Geometry and Medieval Plans Nigel Hiscock, Oxford Brookes The Grid as a Design Tool: From Palladio to Guarini Andrew Morrogh, Univ. of Oregon *The Fate of the Corpus Agrimensorum* in Sixteenth-Century Rome** Ingrid D. Rowland, Univ. of Chicago
Session 310 Valley III Room 308	Ad Quadratum I: The Practical Application of Geometry in the Middle Ages Sponsor: AVISTA Jens Ulff-Møller, Univ. of Oregon, and William W. Clark, Queen's College, CUNY Presider: William W. Clark Geometry on a Carolingian Wall Warren Sanderson, Concordia Univ. "Regle, Compas et Corde" in Romanesque Architecture Marie Thérèse Zenner, CNRS--Poitiers Revealing the Hidden: The Ground Plans of Reims as a Case Study Nancy Y. Wu, International Center for Medieval Art-Cloisters Is There a Relation between Geometry and Construction Sequence at Salisbury Cathedral? Yoshio Kusaba, California State Univ. -Chico Designing Details: The Plans of Clermont Cathedral Michael T. Davis, Mount Holyoke College Two-Dimensional Design and Three-Dimensional Space: The Limitations of Medieval Design Practice in Late Gothic Architecture Linda E. Neagley, Rice Univ. Respondents: Bob Greenburg, Ryerson Polytechnical Univ., and James Addiss, CUNY
Session 368 Valley III Room 308	Ad Quadratum II: Workshop: The Layout of a Gothic Chevet Plan Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: William W. Clark, Queen's College, CUNY Workshop: The Layout of a Gothic Chevet Plan Bob Greenberg, Ryerson Polytechnical Univ. Two continuous outdoor workshop sessions to be spent laying out the east end of a Gothic church with cords and stakes on the Intramural Fields to the west of the Valley dorms. All interested parties are invited to join in this hands-on learning experience. See also session #422
Session 422 Valley III Room 308	Ad Quadratum III: Workshop: The Layout of a Gothic Chevet Plan Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: William W. Clark, Queen's College, CUNY Workshop: The Layout of a Gothic Chevet Plan Bob Greenberg, Ryerson Polytechnical Univ. Two continuous outdoor workshop sessions to be spent laying out the east end of a Gothic church with cords and stakes on the Intramural Fields to the west of the Valley dorms. All interested parties are invited to join in this hands-on learning experience. See also session #368

1997 -- 32^nd International Congress Military Technology
Session 166 Schneider Room 1245	Late Medieval Military Technology Sponsor: AVISTA & *De Re Militari* Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College-Maryland Presider: Bernard Bachrach, University of Minnesota Campaign, Corn, and Clerics: The Government and Logistics under Edward III Beau A. C. Harbin, Catholic University of America Genoese Naval Artillery in the Early 15th Century John Dotson, Southern Illinois University A Problem of Numbers: Force Size at the Battle of Barnet, 1471 William Hubbard, Iowa State University The Printing Press as a Component of Military Technology and Knowledge Transfer in the Late Middle Ages CANCELLED Philip Kaveny, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Session 209 Schneider Room 1245	The Sources of Medieval Military Technology Sponsor: AVISTA & *De Re Militari* Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College-Maryland Presider: Valerie Eads, City University of New York Combat Techniques and Weaponry in the Writings of Chretien de Troyes Paul Gans, New York University A Study of the Medieval Ship Rig Using Wax Seals: A Critique of Sources and Methods Barbara Bowers, Ohio State University The Function and Meaning of the "Military Fasicle" in the Treatise of Walter of Milemete Richard Schneider, York University A Victorian Courtship of the Middle Ages: Frank Norris's Obsession with Medieval Armor and Weapons of War CANCELLED Holly Hale, Louisiana State University
Session 254 Schneider Room 1245	Agincourt: A Practical Re-Assessment: Film and Discussion Sponsor: AVISTA & *De Re Militari* Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College-Maryland Presider: Kelly DeVries The Battle of Agincourt: The Royal Armouries Film Comment on the Film Guy M. Wilson, Royal Armouries Comment on the Film John Waller, Royal Armouries
Session 299 Schneider Room 1245	The Longbow: Effects and Efficiency: A Roundtable Debate Sponsor: AVISTA & *De Re Militari* Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College-Maryland Presider Bert Hall, University of Toronto Participants include: Kelly DeVries and Clifford Rogers, United State Military Academy.
Session 345 Schneider Room 1245	Early Medieval Military Technology Sponsor: AVISTA & *De Re Militari* Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College-Maryland Presider: Clifford Rogers, United States Military Academy To Baghdad with Pride: Dark Age Sword Trade Reconsidered Steven Walton, University of Toronto Thinking About Charlemagne at War Bernard Bachrach, University of Minnesota The Banners of the Bayeux Tapestry Kenneth Madison, Iowa State University
Session 391 Schneider Room 1245	The Technology of Siege Warfare Sponsor: AVISTA & *De Re Militari* Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College-Maryland Presider: John Dotson, Southern Illinois University Poliorcetics, or the Art of besieging a City Renaud Beffeyte, Armédiéval War in the South:Siege Warfare in the Albegensian Crusade Laurence Martin, Saint Louis University Wildfire, Fire Arrows, and Incendiary Projectiles: Non-Explosive Uses of Gunpowder in the Late Middle Ages Bert Hall, University of Toronto Bombards, Serpentines and Murderers: Medieval Artillery? Robert D. Smith, Royal Armouries

1996 -- 31^st International Congress Cloth, Clothing, and Textiles
Session 150 Schneider Room 1120	Cloth, Clothing, and Textiles I: Archaeology and Artifacts Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Barbara S. Bowers, AVISTA and Janet Snyder, Columbia University Presider: Barbara S. Bowers Self-sufficiency or Commerce? Structural and Artifactual Evidence for Textile Manufacture in the Pre-Conquest Period Nina Crummy, Museum of London Distinguished Remains: Clothing and the Identification of Merovingian Graves Bonnie Efros, Southern Illinois University Seals of Approval: Excavated Evidence from London and Other English Towns for Textile Production and Consumption Geoff Egan, Museum of London *The Organization of Strikers in Medieval Fulling Mills: The Rose of the "French" GUALCHIERA* in Determining a Scheme** John Muendel, Waukesha, Wisconsin
Session 189 Schneider Room 1120	Cloth, Clothing, and Textiles II: Contents and Contexts Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Barbara S. Bowers, AVISTA and Janet Snyder, Columbia University Presider: Janet Snyder Simulated Textiles as an Allegorical Mode in Romanesque Wall Painting Thomas E. A Dale, Columbia University The Depiction of Contemporary High Costume in Irish High Crosses Margaret McEnchroe Williams, Columbia University From Content to Form: Fossilization of the Clothing of the Virgin in the Twelfth Century Janet Snyder
Session 229 Schneider Room 1120	Cloth, Clothing, and Textiles III: Late Medieval and Renaissance Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Robin Netherton, Annandale, Virginia Presider: Janet Snyder, Columbia University Exotic Women In Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Art: Witness and Testament Dawn Virginia Odell, University of Chicago Clothing Themselves in Acres: Attitudes About Apparel in Late Medieval England Margaret Rose Jaster, Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg Manifest Insignificance: Nun's Veiling in Medieval Art Desirée Koslin, New York University The Role of Textiles in the Global Economy, 1450-1800 Maureen F. Mazzaoui, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1995 -- 30^th International Congress I have been in many Lands: Villard de Honnecourt and his World
Session 143 Haworth Room 1120	Villard de Honnecourt's "Advice" and the Practice of Gothic Architecture Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Michael T. Davis, Mount Holyoke College Presider: Michael T. Davis Villard de Honnecourt as an Architect Jean Gimpel, London, England Villard de Honnecourt and Cistercian Planning: An Explanadon Nigel Hiscock, Oxford Brookes University The "Villard de Honnecourt" Drawings at Saint-Quentin Reconsidered Ellen Shortell, SUNY-Oswego
Session 185 Haworth Room 1120	Craft and Creation in Medieval Art and Architecture Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Bert Hall, University of Toronto Presider: Bert Hall Villard de Honnecourt et la Naissance de la Science du Trait Roland Bechmann, Paris, France Gothic Barns: Barn Building in Medieval England, Construction and Cultural Considerations Niall Brady, Cornell University Technology and Art in the Pre-Modern World (Panel Discussion) Michael T. Davis, Mount Holyoke College and Bert Hall -- Moderators
5:00 PM Saturday Fetzer Room 1010	AVISTA Evening Session Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Michael T. Davis, Mount Holyoke College Presider: Michael T. Davis Villard de Honnecourt's Sketches: Reality or Imagination? Robert Greenberg, Ryerson Polytechnic University This session is followed by a Cash Bar.

1994 -- 29^th International Congress Medieval Metals and Metallurgy


1993 -- 28^th International Congress The Mechanical Arts: How Things Work
Session 69 Fetzer Room 2020	The Mechanical Arts-How Things Move and Work: Philosophical and Practical Approaches I Sponsor: Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Science, Technology, and Art (AVISTA) Organizer: W. Ted Szwejkowski, AVISTA Presider: W. Ted Szwejkowski An Introduction to the Mechanical Arts in the Middle Ages ADDED Steven Walton, University of Toronto Practical Geometry and Measurement in Medieval Architecture Hugh McCague, York University The Role of Olive Oil in the Lubrication of Medieval Machines John Muendel, Waukesha, Wisconsin The Medieval Architect's Computer: The Compass Ervin Bonkalo, METEM Church History Encyclopedia
Session 108 Fetzer Room 2020	The Mechanical Arts-How Things Move and Work: Philosophical and Practical Approaches II Sponsor: Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Science, Technology, and Art (AVISTA) Organizer: W. Ted Szwejkowski, AVISTA Presider: W. Ted Szwejkowski Villard's Heirs: The Role of Fantasy in Technological Treatises Bert S. Hall, University of Toronto The Arithmetical Origins of the Italian Renaissance Ingrid D. Rowland, University of Chicago Technology from the Perspective of Magic Frank Klaassen, University of Toronto

1992 -- 27^th International Congress The Medieval Healing Arts: Their Setting and Practice
Session 323 Fetzer Room 2020	The Medieval Healing Arts, Their Setting and Practice. In Honor of Charles H. Talbot I Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Mark Infusino, University of California-Los Angeles Presider: Mark Infusino "Morbus Gallicus" in the Late Middle Ages Catrien Santing, University of Groningen And Gladly Teach: The Medieval Medical Faculty at Montpellier Howell H. Gwin, Jr., Lamar University Saint Bernardino of Siena and His Thaumaturgic Activity as a Healer J.W. Cyril, Northern Arizona University
Session 365 Fetzer Room 2020	The Medieval Healing Arts, Their Setting and Practice. In Honor of Charles H. Talbot II Sponsor: AVISTA Organizer: Mark Infusino, University of California-Los Angeles Presider: Mark Infusino The Two Middle English Surgeries in Wellcome MS. 564 Richard Grothé, Université de Montréal Healers and Healing in Medieval Hungary Ervin Bonkalo, Regis College Saint Appollonia: Patroness and Practitioner Leslie Abend Callahan, CUNY Graduate School

1991 -- 26^th International Congress Numbers, Proportions, Weights and Measures


1990 -- 25^th International Congress Transportation in Art, Literature and Reality, 500-1500
	Mast and Sail in the Völkerwanderung Michael Jones Transported through Grace: the Theology of Elijah's Ascension in the Dover Bible Elaine M. Beretz Practical Chivalry: the Training of Horses for Tournaments and Battle Carroll Gillmor *The Pisan bacini* and the elusive Muslim Ship John H. Pryor The Cog in Art and Recent Archaeology: Analysis of a Revolutionary Design Aleydis van de Moorte Ships and Boats in the Belles Heures Barbara Shaeffer Bowers Changes in Ship Depictions, 500-1500 Christiane Villain-Gandossi Respondent**: Albert C. Leighton

1989 -- 24^th International Congress Villard de Honnecourt: the Artist and His Drawings
	Interprètation des figures de 'li ars de iometrie' du manuscrit de Villard de Honnecourt Roland Bechmann Plastic and Scientific Anatomy in the Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt Mark H. Infusino Villard de Honnecourt and Medieval Bronzes George Szabo Villard de Honnecourt's Use of Templates in his Drawings Rebecca Price-Wilkin Undressing Villard: Costumes in the Drawings of Villard de Honnecourt as a Means of Understanding His Iconography Thomas J. Primeau Respondent: Michael T. Davis

1988 -- 23^rd International Congress From the Ground Up: Building Technology in the Middle Ages
	Easternmost Medieval: Transformation of Construction Techniques and Materials in the Konya-Aksaray Sultan Han Caravanserai (1229-1231) Serim Denel Medieval Practices in French Bridge Construction Marjorie N. Boyer Geometric Planning in Romanesque Architecture Mona Spangler Phillips Fiction and Fact: the Buttressing System of Narbonne Cathedral Vivian Paul and Bob Warden Medieval Homes: a Chamber of One's Own Deborah Ellis In Search of the Unspectacular: Building Campaigns and Building Technology in small Towns of the Late Middle Ages Gerhard Jaritz

1987 -- 22^nd International Congress Use and Iconography of Wheels and Circles in the Middle Ages
	The Humble Profile of the Regal Chariot in Medieval Illuminations Marjorie N. Boyer Fortune and her Wheel: the Meaning of a Medieval Symbol Charles M. Radding On the Iconographical Difference between Wheel and Circle: Some Rose Windows and the Ages of Man in the de Lisle Psalter (London, British Library, MS Arundel 83) Richard Ivo Schneider Respondents: Catherine Brown Tkacz, Martin Warner

1986 -- 21^st International Congress The Technical Revolution of the Early Second Millennium A.D. and Its Impact on our Society
	Villard de Honnecourt et les Rose Chantal Hardy Modern Bibliographic Terminology in the Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt Carl F. Barnes, Jr. A Reinterpretation of Ancient Roman Architecture and Its Aftermath Robert Mark Women and Technology in the Later Middle Ages George Ovitt, Jr.

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