AVISTA Forum Journal

The articles and major reviews of past issues are listed below. Most issues also included conference calls, grant deadlines, and other time-limited information which is not listed below.

Some Back Issues are available from the Treasurer. Those currently available are:
Vol 8, no 1 (Spring/Summer 1994)
Vol 9, no 2 (Fall 1995/Winster 1996)
Vol 10, no 1 (Fall 1996/Winter 1997)
Vol 10, no 2/Vol 11, no 1 (Fall 1997/Spring 1998)
Vol 11, no 2 (Fall 1998/Winter 1999)
Vol 12, no 1 (Fall 1999)
 
Past Issues
[13.2] [13.1] [12.2] [12.1] [11.2] [11.1/10.2] [10.1] [9.2] [9.1] [8.2] [8.1]
[7.2] [7.1] [6.2] [6.1] [5.2] [5.1] [4.2] [4.1] [3.2] [3.1] [2.2] [2.1]

Volume 13.2     2003

PRESIDENT'S LETTER 3
AVISTAAT KALAMAZOO 2004 4
ARTICLES
  "The Social Organization of Labor: Early medieval Iron Mining and Production"
by Thomas Brunton
5
  "The Old English Pharmacopoeia"
by Maria Amalia D'Aronco
9
BOOK REVIEWS
  "A Book of Note: Review and Commentary"
( Les charpentes du xie au xixe siècle, Typologie et évolution en France du Nord et en Belgique by Andrée Corval-Dessert, et al.)
by Lynn T. Courtenay
19
FORUM COLUMN
  "How Many Built All the Churches?"
by John James
23
CONFERENCE NOTES: AVISTA at Kalamazoo 2003
  Art, Technology, and Sciences: Interdisciplinary Studies -- A Panel Discussion
25
  Art, Technology, and Sciences; Interdisciplinary Studies
37
  Illustrating Medieval Medicine and the Natural Sciences
41
KALAMAZOO ROUNDUP 2003
(summaries of papers of interest to AVISTA members)
51
DISSERTATIONS OF INTEREST
77
Minutes of AVISTA Business Meeting
79

Volume 13.1     2003

ARTICLES
  "Written in Stone: The impact of the properties of quarried stone on the design of medieval sculpture"
by Janey Snyder
1
  "Oh Master, You're Wonderful! The problem of labor in ornamental sculpture of the Chartres Royal Portal"
by Vibeke Olson
6
  "Dendrochronology for Medieval Studies"
by Lynn T. Courtenay
13
REVIEWS
  "Angevin Architecture in the Kingdom of Naples: a review of recent studies"
by Michael T. Davis
18
CONFERENCE NOTES
  AVISTA Sessions at the 38th Medieval Congress (Kalamazoo), 2003
• Program and Abstracts of Papers
21
  AVISTA Sessions at the 37th Medieval Congress (Kalamazoo), 2002
• Program and Abstracts of Papers
25
  AVISTA Sessions at the Leeds Medieval Congress, 2002
• Program and Abstracts of Papers
28
BULLETIN BOARD
31
  AVISTA Business Meeting, 2002
32
  Notes for Contributors
33
  Editorial Board and Membership Application
34

Volume 12.2      Fall 2001

  In Memoriam: Lawrence Hoey (1951-2000)
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AAVISTA SESSIONS AT THE THIRTY-SIXTH MEDIEVAL CONGRESS
  The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice: Paper titles and Abstracts
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  Sessions on Stone sponsored by AVISTA and ICMA: Paper titles and Abstracts
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VILLARDIANA
  "What’s in a Name? The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourts"
by Carl F. Barnes, Jr.
-
  "Villard’s Literacy: a review"
by Carl F. Barnes, Jr.
-
ARTICLES
  "Carolingian Buildings at Aachen: Their Dating and Meaning"
by Warren Sanderson
-
  "Wood, Casks, and Baltic Trade. Analytical Prospects of a Sixteenth-Century Shipwreck"
by Martin R. Manders
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BULLETIN BOARD
  Online resources and conferences, 2002
-
  Minutes of AVISTA Business Meeting, 2000
-
  Notes for Contributors
-
  Editorial Board and Membership Application
-

Volume 12.1      Fall 1999

  Directors and Officers
2
AVISTA NEWS
  AVISTA Website
2
  AVISTA Sessions: Medieval Congress 2000
2
  Call for Papers: AVISTA Sessions: Medieval Congress 2001
3
ARTICLES
  "Warrior Kings and Savvy Abbots: The Cross of the Scriptures, Clonmacnois"
by Margaret M. Williams
4
  "A Critical Account of Suger's Architecture at Saint-Denis"
by Lawrence R. Hoey
12
  "Making Sense of Root 2"
by Nigel Hiscock
20
BULLETIN BOARD
  Grants
28
  Conference Calendar
29
  Online
31
  Exhibitions
32
  Notes for Contributors
33
  Annual Business Meeting of AVISTA
33
  Editorial Board and Deadline for Spring 2000 Issue
35

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Volume 11.2      Fall 1998/Winter 1999

  Directors
2
  Call for Papers: AVISTA Sessions in Honor of Jean Gimpel: Kalamazoo 2000
2-3
  AVISTA Sessions: International Congress on Medieval Studies 1999
3-4
  Abstracts of AVISTA Sessions
4-7
ARTICLES
  "Hugues Libergier and His Instruments"
by Nancy Wu
7-13
  "Gleanings from the 1253 Building Accounts of Westminster Abbey"
by A. Richard Jones
13-32
REVIEWS
  Michael V. Schwarz, Li Sepouture dun Sarrazin
by Carl Barnes, Jr.
32-33
  Robert G. Calkins, Medieval Architecture in Western Europe
by Carl Barnes, Jr.
33-34
BULLETIN BOARD
  Sites
34
  Electronic Addresses
34
  Grants
34-35
  Publications and Resources
35-36
  Conference Calendar
36-38
  Exhibitions and Museums
39
  Editorial Board, Summer 1999 Issue, and Membership Application
39

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Volume 10.2/11.1          Fall 1997/Spring 1998

  In the News: Assisi and Pisa
3
ARTICLES
  "Jean Gimpel and Villard de Honnecourt"
by Roland Bechman
3
  "Medieval Masons at Work"
by Robrt Ousterhout
5
  "Byzantine Influences at Saint-Front at Perigueux"
by Annemarie Sawkins
7
  "Twelfth-Century Stained Glass Technology"
by Donald Royce-Roll
13
SAINT-DENIS STUDIES
  "Could Suger have Built the Choir of Saint-Denis in Four Years?"
by John James
23
  "A Structural Analysis of the Choir Vaulting"
by Fernando Espinoza
25
  "Holy Toledo"
by Robert Bork
31
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Volume 10 Number 1        Fall 1996/Winter 1997

Farewell to a Friend: Jean Gimpel
3

AVISTA Sessions: 1996 Medieval Congress: Abstracts of Papers
5
ARTICLES

The Work of Count Galeran
by Stephen Gardner and John James
9

Knights and Ladies at the Door
by Janet Snyder
10

The Plan of Saint-Urbain Troyes
by Michael T Davis
15

The Architectural Envelope of the Sainte-Chapelle
by Stephen Murray
21
REVIEWS

Beat Brenk and Daniel Weiss on the Sainte-Chapelle
Walter Cahn on Richard of St.-Victor's Ezekiel Commentary
by Michael T. Davis
25

Marion Archibald et al. on Coin Dies from London
by Alan M. Stahl
30
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Volume 9 Number 2         Fall 1995 /Winter 1996
ARTICLES

Chartres
by Paul Cardinal Poupard
4

The Final Chevet Desien of Toulouse's Jacobin Church
by Richard A. Sundt
7

Conservation and Historical Consciousness
by Wendy M Watson
10
ARTICLE REVIEWS

Art and Architecture:

Robert Mark and Ahmet Çakmak
Hagia Sophia from the Age of Justinian to the Present
reviewed by Mark J. Johnson
21

Maureen C. Miller
From Episcopal to Communal Palaces: Places and Power in Norther Italy (1000-1250)
reviewed by Robert Russell
22

Science and Technology:

Richard Kieclehefer
The Specific Rationality of Medieval Magic
reviewed by Pamela O. Long
23

Petra J.E.M. van Dam
To Dig: Labour and Holland's Labour Market ca. 1510
reviewed by Pamela O. Long
24

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Volume 9 Number 1      Spring / Summer 1995

Directors 2
Call for Papers: AVISTA Sessions 1996 Medieval Congress 2
Bulletin Board 2
Some Aesthetic Implications of Multiplication of Species 3
ARTICLE REVIEWS:

New Studies of Canterbury Cathedral 6

The Chateau at Vincennes 9
DESIGN AND METROLOGY:

Radian Measure in the Beauvais Hemicycle? 11

Medieval Units of Measure 12
>AVISTA SESSIONS: 1995 Medieval Congress

Villard de Honnecourt: his life and afterlife 14

Abstracts of AVISTA Sessions 14
News From Members and Affiliated Societies 15
Recent and Forthcoming Papers 17
Activities -- Past, Present, Future 19
Annual Business Meeting of A VISTA 23
AVISTA membership application 23
Editorial Board (Deadline Fall 1995 issue) Back
Cover
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Volume 8 Number 2          Fall 1994/ Winter 1995
ARTICLE

Science, Technology, and Gothic Architecture
by Michael T. Davis
3
REVIEW ARTICLE

Return to Beauvais: The Design of the Gothic Choir
by Stephen Murray
7
ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES

Reviews and a Reply

Early Christian Buildings: a Review
by Udo Kulterman
12

Orvieto Cathedral
by Robert Russell
12

Remote Sensing at Chartres Cathedral: a Reply
by Charles Stegeman
13
IN BRIEF

Geometry and the Practice of Architecture

The Medieval Architect's Computer: The Compass
by Ervin Bonkalo
14

Architectural Design and Geometrical Analysis
by Françoise Bucher
14

Bibliography of AVISTA Library
23
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Volume 8 Number 1          Spring/Summer 1994

AVISTA-ANS Sessions: 1994 Medieval Congress 2

Abstracts of AVISTA-ANS Sessions 3
REVIEWS OF ARTICLES

Plan Design in Gothic Architecture:

Beauvais Cathedral and Ebrach Abbey
by Michael T. Davis
5

Saint-Maclou in Rouen
by Robert Russell
7

Studies on Chartres Cathedral:

Remote Sensing at Chartres Cathedral
by Clark Maines
8

Liturgy and Meaning in the Sculpture of Chartres
by Walter Cahn
9

The Mine as Workplace in Late Medieval/Early Modern Europe
by Pamela O. Long
10
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Volume 7 Number 2         Fall 1993/Winter 1994
Castello IV 1
Directors 2
AVISTA Sessions 2
WORK IN PROGRESS

The Abbey Church of Notre-Dame at Jumiages 8

Rievaulx Abbey. 8
IN BRIEF

In Defense of Toichology 9

A Northern Master for Clermont-Ferrand? 9

Olive Oil and Machines 10
REVIEWS OF ARTICLES:

Two Studies on Medieval Treadwheels 11

Monastic ,Architecture for Women 12
News from Members and Affiliated Societies 13
Recent and Forthcoming Papers 19
Activities -- Past, Present, Future 22
Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting of AVISTA 25
Bulletin Board 26
Editorial Board (Deadline. Spring 1994 issue) 27
AVISTA membership application 27
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Volume 7 Number 1         Spring/Summer 1993
The View From Honnecourt 1
Directors 2
Bulletin Board 2
Call for Papers 2
AVISTA Sessions 3
Abstracts 3
New Light On Old Stones 4
REVIEWS OF ARTICLES:

Astronomy and Science. Flying Buttresses, Narbonne Cathedral 7
News from Members and Affiliated Societies 12
Recent and Forthcoming Papers 13
Activities -- Past, Present, Future 16
Bibliography of AVISTA Library 18
Editorial Board (Deadline. Fall 1993 issue) 19
AVISTA - membership application 19
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Volume 6 Number 2         Fall 1992/ Winter 1993
A Note From The President 1
Directors 2
Bulletin Board 2
Call for Papers 3
Annual Business Meeting of AVISTA May 1993 3
Notes and Queries 4
In the News 4
Rib Vaults in Italy 5
News from Members and Affiliated Societies 7
Recent and Forthcoming Papers 8
Activities -- Past, Present, Future 12
Bibliography of AVISTA Library. 18
Editorial Board (Deadline. Spring 1993 issue) 19
AVISTA membership application 19
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Volume 6 Number 1         Fall 1991/Spring 1992
Editorial 1
Directors 2
Call for Papers 2
Annual Business Meeting of AVISTA, May 1992 2
From the President 3
AVISTA Sessions at Kalamazoo, May 1992 3
In Memoriam: Thomas W. Lyman 4
BOOK REVIEW: Bestiaries 4
REVIEWS OF ARTICLES:

Ubar 5

Italian Architecture 5

Views of St-Maur 7
News from Members and Affiliated Societies 7
Recent and Forthcoming Papers 8
Activities -- Past, Present, Future 11
Abstracts. AVISTA Sessions 15
Bibliography of AVISTA Library 17
Editorial Board (Deadline, Fall 1992 issue) 18
AVISTA membership application 18
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Volume 5 Number 3         Spring 1991
Call to Arms 1
From the Editor: News 2
Call for Papers 4
From the President 5
REVIEWS OF ARTICLES:

Recent Villard Studies 5

Medieval Technology 7

Medieval Economics 9
Notes and Queries 11
News from Members and Affiliated Societies 11
Recent and Forthcoming Papers 13
Activities -- Past, Present. Future 17
Annual Business Meeting of AVISTA 20
Editorial Board 22
AVISTA membership application 22
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Volume 5 Number 1         Fall 1990
From the Editor: Power Games 1
Call for Papers 4
AVISTA Sessions at Kalamazoo, May 1991 4
AVISTA Sessions 1986-1992 5
From the President 5
REVIEWS OF ARTICLES:

An Unfinished Lentel, Villiard, The Shroud of Turin 6
Abstracts, AVISTA Sessions 12
Abstracts, 24th Annual Meeting of MESA 15
News from Members and Affiliated Societies 16
Recent and Forthcoming Papers 17
Activities -- Past, Present. Future 21
Bibliography of AVISTA Library 25
Annual Business Meeting of AVISTA 26
Editorial Board (Deadline, Spring '91 issue) 27
AVISTA membership application 27
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Volume 4 Number 2         Spring 1990

From the Editor: The Technology of Symbols 1
Call for Papers -- AVISTA Sessions at Kalamazoo, May 1991 3
Program, AVISTA Sessions. May 1990 4
Abstracts, AVISTA Sessions. May 1990 4
Notes and Queries 6
Exhibition Reviews 7
REVIEWS OF ARTICLES:

Economics/Technology/Money/Alchemy 8

Sculpture, Architecture, Villard 11
Recent and Forthcoming Papers 13
News from Members and Affiliated Societies 16
Activities -- Past, Present, Future 17
New European Books and Journals 20
Bibliography of AVISTA Library 21
Editorial Board (Deadline, Fall '90 issue) 23
AVISTA membership application 23
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Volume 4 Number 1         Fall 1989
From the Editor: Catastrophe and Technology 1
Call for Papers -- AVISTA Sessions at Kalamazoo, May 1991 3
Program, AVISTA Sessions, Kalamazoo, May 1990 3
Villardiana 4
Basement Ballistics, by W.T. Szwejkowski 5
Notes and Queries 10
Reply to Of Quarks and Chisels by E. Bonkalo 11
REVIEWS OF ARTICLES:

Astronomy and Mathematics 11

Medieval Stone-cutting and Villard 14
Recent and Forthcoming Papers 15
News from Members and Affiliated Associations 19
Activities -- Past, Present. Future 22
New European Books and Journals 27
Bibliography of AVISTA Library 28
Minutes, 1989 Annual Business Meeting 29
Editorial Board (Deadline. Spring '90 issue) 31
AVISTA membership application 31
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Volume 3 Number 2         Spring 1989
From the Editor: Of Quarks and Chisels 1
Message from the President 2
Call for Papers -- AVISTA Sessions at Kalamazoo, May 1990 3
Program, , AVISTA Sessions at Kalamazoo, May 1989 4
Notes and Queries 4
BOOK REVIEW:

José Antonio Garcia-Diego & Nicolás García Tapia. eds., Vida y Técnica en el Renacimiento: Manuscrito de Francisco Lobato, vecino de Medina del Campo 5
REVIEWS OF ARTICLES:

Science, Mathematics, Technology, and Metallurgy 7

Medieval Drawings and Manuscripts 12
AVISTA Sessions at Kalamazoo: Abstracts 15
Recent and Forthcoming Papers 16
News from Members and Affiliated Associations 19
Activities -- Past, Present, Future 20
Bibliography of AVISTA Library 25
Editorial Board (Deadline. Fall '89 Issue) 27
AVISTA membership application 27
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Volume 3 Number 1          Fall 1988
Message from the President 1
Call for Papers AVISTA Sessions at Kalamazoo. May 1990 2
Program, AVISTA Sessions, Kalamazoo, May 1989 3
Notes and Queries 4
REVIEWS OF ARTICLES:

Marjorie N. Boyer on Wheels in History 5

Constance H. Berman on Medieval Misogyny 6

George Saliba on Islamic Mathematics & Science 6

Bert S. Hall on Military Acculturation 8

Pamela O. Long on The Social Functions of Late Medieval Anatomy 10
Papers on Medieval/Early Modern Technology read at SHOT 11
News and Announcements 14
Recent and Forthcoming Papers 15
New Periodicals 18
Activities -- Past, Present, Future 18
Bibliography of AVISTA Library 24
Minutes, 1988 Annual Business Meeting 26
Editorial Board 27
AVISTA membership application 27
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Volume 2 Number 2          Spring 1988
On the Invisible City 1
Kalamazoo 1988, AVISTA Schedule 2
Call for Topics 2
From the Ground Up: Building Technology in the Middle Ages (Kalamazoo Sessions) 3
Reviews of Articles 6
Art and Politics 10
Notes and Queries 13
News from Members and Affiliated Associations 14
Recent and Forthcoming Papers 17
Activities -- Past, Present, Future 19
Bibliography of AVISTA Library 21
Deadline, Fall 1988 22
Notes from the President 22
Corrections 22
AVISTA Membership Application 23
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Volume 2 Number 1          Fall 1987
Lynn White, Jr. l
Nominations for Officers and Board Members 2
AVISTA Sessions at Kalamazoo 2
Call for Topics 2
Notes and Queries 3
Reviews of Articles 5
Work in Progress 6
Robert Mark: A Review of John Fitchen's Building Construction before Mechanization 9
News and Notes of AVISTA Members 11
Affiliated Societies 13
Recent and Forthcoming Papers 14
Activities --Past, Present, Future 17
Bibliography of AVISTA Library 21
Directory of AVISTA Members 22
Minutes of the Annual Meeting 26
Notes from the Editor 27
AVISTA Membership Application 27

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