Book ID: CBB000078988

The engineering of medieval cathedrals (1997)

unapi

Courtenay, Lynn T. (Editor)


Ashgate, Variorum


Publication Date: 1997
Physical Details: xxxviii + 360 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Mark, Robert: Robert Willis, Viollet-le-Duc and the structural approach to Gothic architecture. Heyman, J.: On the rubber vaults of the Middle Ages and other matters. Shelby, Lon R.: The geometrical knowledge of mediaeval master masons. Branner, Robert: Villard de Honnecourt, Reims, and the origin of Gothic architectural drawing. Harvey, J.H.: The tracing floor of York Minster. Shelby, Lon R., Mark, Robert: Late Gothic structural design in “instructions” of Lorenz Lechler. Fernie, Eric: The ground plan of Norwich Cathedral and the square root of two. Bony, Jean: The stonework planning of the first Durham master. Bonde, S., Maines, C., Mark, Robert: Archaeology and engineering: The foundations of Amiens Cathedral. Murray, S.: The collapse of 1284 at Beauvais Cathedral. Heyman, J.: Beauvais Cathedral. Alexander, K.D., Mark, Robert, Abel, J.F.: The structural behaviour of medieval ribbed vaulting. Leedy, Walter C., Jr.: Fan vaulting. Smith, Elizabeth Bradford: “Ars mechanica”: Gothic structure in Italy. Mainstone, Rowland J.: Brunelleschi's dome of S. Maria del Fiore and some related structures. Fitchen, John F.: A comment on the function of the upper flying buttress in French Gothic architecture. Foot, N.D.J., Litton, C.D., Simpson, W.G.: The high roofs of the east end of Lincoln Cathedral. Courtenay, Lynn T.: Viollet-le-Duc and the flèche of Notre-Dame de Paris: Gothic carpentry of the 13th and 19th centuries. Tatton-Brown, Tim: Building the tower and spire of Salisbury Cathedral.


Reviewed By

Review Sundt, R.A. (1999) Review of "The engineering of medieval cathedrals". Technology and Culture (pp. 657-58). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000078988/

Similar Citations

Article Carlo Santini; (2012)
Ancora sul titolo del poema di Germanico (/isis/citation/CBB988810507/)

Book Josefina Rodríguez Arribas; Charles Burnett; Silke Ackermann; Ryan Szpiech; (2019)
Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures (/isis/citation/CBB340222573/)

Article Bullough, Vern L.; Bullough, Bonnie; (1993)
Medieval nursing (/isis/citation/CBB000048000/)

Chapter Sébastien Moureau; (2014)
Note on a Passage of the Arabic Translation of Ptolemy’s Planetary Hypotheses (/isis/citation/CBB418039421/)

Chapter Sonja Brentjes; Jürgen Renn; (2015)
A Re-evaluation of the Liber de canonio (/isis/citation/CBB205316085/)

Article Giuseppe Capelli; (2015)
La Marrana dell’acqua Mariana. Un corso d’acqua al servizio dei Papi (/isis/citation/CBB057879955/)

Article ALEXANDRE M. ROBERTS; (2019)
Framing a Middle Byzantine Alchemical Codex (/isis/citation/CBB541633192/)

Article Naama Cohen-Hanegbi; (2019)
Special Cluster Learning Practice from Texts: Jews and Medicine in the Later Middle Ages (/isis/citation/CBB874294460/)

Book Ernst Tremp; (2014)
Der St.Galler Klosterplan: Faksimile, Begleittext, Beischriften und Übersetzung (/isis/citation/CBB105630139/)

Book Arturo Calzona; Daniela Lamberini; (2010)
La civiltà delle acque tra Medioevo e Quattrocento (/isis/citation/CBB536899685/)

Article Gad Freudenthal; Resianne Fontaine; (2016)
Philosophy and Medicine in Jewish Provence, Anno 1199: Samuel Ibn Tibbon and Doeg the Edomite Translating Galen's Tegni (/isis/citation/CBB064615288/)

Book Damien Janos; (2012)
Method, Structure, and Development in al-Fārābī’s Cosmology (/isis/citation/CBB028508118/)

Article Markus Asper; (2019)
Personae at Play. ‘Men of Mathematics’ in Commentary (/isis/citation/CBB621312451/)

Authors & Contributors
Freudenthal, Gad
Cohen-Hanegbi, Naama
Ernst Tremp
Capelli, Giuseppe
Calzona, Arturo
Roberts, Alexandre M.
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Astronomy
Science and culture
Water resource management
Mathematics
Cosmology
Time Periods
Medieval
Renaissance
Ancient
13th century
Early modern
Modern
Places
Italy
Europe
Rome (Italy)
Hellenistic world
Mediterranean region
Bologna (Italy)
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment