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Avisn FORUM Journal of the Association Ellard De Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art AVISn FORUM Journal of The Association Ellard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art Volume 10 Number 1 Fall 1996 1Winter 1997 MAR 2 1997 C~~~~~#'Lo 1 LI - Page Directors ............................................................................... 2 Bulletin Board ...................................................................... 2 Farewell to a Friend: Jean Gimpel ......................................... 3 I From the President ................................................................. 4 I AVISTA Sessions: 1996 Medieval Congress .......................... 5 Abstracts of Papers Articles The Work of Count Galeran ................................................... 9 by Stephen ~ardn&nd John James Knights and Ladies at the Door ............................................ 10 by Janet Snyder The Plan of Saint-Urbain, Troyes ........................................ I5 by Michael T. Davis The Architectural Envelope of the Sainte-Chapelle ............. 2 1 by Stephen Murray Reviews Beat Brenk and Daniel Weiss on the Sainte-Chapelle Walter Cahn on Richard of St.-Victor's Ezekiel Commentary ............................................................ 25 by Michael T. ~avis Marion Archibald et al., on Coin Dies from London ........... 30 by Alan M. Stahl News from Members and Affiliated Societies ..................... 3 1 Activities... Past, Present, Future ........................................... 33 AVISTA Membership application ......................................... 39 Editorial Board (Deadline, Spring 1997 issue) ..................... 39 Page 2 BULLETIN BOARD OMINATIONS to the AVISTA Board of Directors for the three-year term 1997-2000 are invited from AVISTA Nmembers. Please submit nominations to the President of AVISTA, Warren Sanderson, PO Box 783, Champlain, NY 12919 and note the qualifications of the candidate. Elections to the Board will be held at the annual business meeting at the Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo in May 1997. AVISTA FORC. THE VILLARD DE HONNECOURT RESEARCH PRIZE Volume 10 Number 1 This is a reminder of the recent establishment of The Villard Fall 1996Ninter 1997 de Honnecourt Research Prize, an award which intends to stimu- late interest in the work of Villard de Honnecourt among young Editor: Michael T. Davis scholars. It seeks to engage the expertise and original insights of students of medieval science, technology, and art in theactivities 0 1997 AVISTAInc. sponsored by the Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Science, Technology, and Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Art (AVISTA). Interdiscipinary Study of Medieval Two prizes are to be established: 1) The Foundation will award $250 for a paper that offers new insights into or a Technology, Science, and Art compellingly innovative interpretation of any drawing in the sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt (Paris, BN fr. 19093);2) an Fine Arts award of $125 will be made for an original scholarly essay on medieval ecclesiastical architecture or medieval technology, Haverford College science or art. The selected papers will be published in AVZSTA Haverford, PA 1904.1 U.S.A. Forum Journal, the bi-annual periodical of AVISTA. Submissions in English or French are welcomed from both undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in an accredited Officers 1996-1997 : university of a sovereign country who are members of AVISTA. President: Warren Sanderson Papers will be evaluated by a committee composed of three Vice-President: George Saliba AVISTA scholars expert in the field of the submission; the president of AVISTA and the editor-in-chief of AVZSTA Forum Secretary: Bert Hall Journal will serve as ex-officio members. Treasurer: Richard A. Sundt Deadlines for submissions are March 1 for the Spring issue of the AVZSTA Forum Journal; September 1 for the Fall issue. Counsel: Holbrook Bunting, Jr. Participants are requested to attach $2.50, check, money order, or European Director: Jean Gimpel bank draft payable to a United States bank, to cover costs of reproduction and mailing. Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope for the return of manuscripts and illustrations. North American Directors: For further information, contact: Barbara S. Bowers (1995-1998) Michael T. Davis William W. Clark (1995- 1998) Editor-in-chief, AVZSTA Forum Journal Department of Art Kelly DeVries ( 1995- 1998) Mount Holyoke College Paul Gans ( 1996-1999) South Hadley, MA 01075- 1499 Barbara M. Kreutz (1995- 1997) tel: 41 3-538-2474 fax: 4 13-538-2167 Stephen Mwray (1996- 1999) e-mail: [email protected] Richard Schneider (1995- 1998) Alan Stah1 (1995-1998) VISTA SESSIONS,32~~ INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON A MEDIEVALSTUDIES, May 7- 1 1, 1997 co-sponsored with De Charles Stegeman ( 1995- 1998) Re Militari: Military Technology, Architecture, Arms, Armor. Marie-Thkrkse Zenner (1995- 1997) For further information, contact: Kelly DeVries, Department of History, Loyola College of Maryland, 450 1 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21 2 10-2699; e-mail: [email protected]. AVISTAFORUM (ISSN 1041-6994) is produced by The Laser Touch, Inc. based in Phoenixville, PA. ENAUD BEFFEYTE,who will deliver a paper entitled AV~STAFORUM is indexed by the BHA. R Poliorcetics, or the Art of Besieging a Ci5 in the AVISTAI De Re Militari sponsored session The Technology of Warfare at Kalamazoo, is available for lectures during his stay in the United States from about April 11, 1997 until the Medieval Congress. Page 3 Trained as a carpenter and a Master within the system of the EAN GIMPELNOUS A QUITTE dans la nuit du 15- 16 juin. Compagnons des Devoirs Unis, M. Beffeyte is a storehouse of Ceux qui l'ont connu auront quelque ma1 a imaginer dans knowledge of medieval techniques and technology. For over ten JI'immobilitC de la mort cet homme sans cesse en mouvement, years, he has built functioning, precision siege machines, as well qu'on aura rarement vu assis plus de dix minutes, dont la pens6 as machines PlPvatoires, for castle-museums throughout France. et la parole Cvoluaient sans cesse avec une telle rapidit6 de He served as principal consultant for the brilliant interpretation l'image au paradoxe, de la clartC a la conjecture, ne craignant ni of the geometrical drawings of Villard de Honnecourt published le jugement serein ni l'exegeration manifeste! by Roland Bechmann (Picard, 1991, 2nd ed. 1993). In his Mais il y avait aussi en lui, et plus profondCment, un sens de intelligence, eloquence, anddesire to impart his skill and knowl- la recherche tout ii fait remarquable. Et qu'il a prouve dbs son edge, Renaud Beffeyte is unique. Renaud Beffeyte will speak at premier ouvrage. C'est en decouvrant, aux Archives Nationales, Haverford College on Traditions of the Trades: From Hand to les releves de salaires verses aux artisansde lacathedrale d' Autun, Spirit, in late April. He can deliver talks in French or in English. qu'il s'est passionne sur le sujet; poursuivant avec le registre de If you wish to invite Renaud Beffeyte to speak at your la taille-l'imp8t leve Paris sur les diverses professions-puis institution on siege machines, civil engineering, or workers' toutes les sources de documentation possibles, sans ntgliger les traditions, please contact him directly: oeuvres de chercheurs comme Pierre du Colombier ou Bertrand M. Renaud Beffeyte, Armeditval, Lisle, 47260 Castelmoron- Gille, il n'allait pas tarder areunir les elements du volume destine sur-Lot, France; tel: (33) 53 84 98 36; fax: (33) 53 88 22 41. *:* a paraitre aux Editions du Seuil, Les Bdtisseurs de catharales, dont le succts fut immtdiat. et durable. 'Pour nous. me disait recemmement un jeune architecte, c'est un classique: tous les architectes ont lu Les Bdtisseurs.' Tire a plus de 200,000 FAREWELL TO A FRIEND: exemplaires, reCdite en grand format en 1980. il a Cte traduit en japonks, en hollandais, en polonais, en roumain aprks avoir CtC JEAN GlM(1918- 1996) Cdite en Angleterre et aux Etats-Unis. Tandis que Jean Gimpel ne cessait de poursuivre et approfondir son etude d'une epoque qui N JUNE15, JEANGIMPEL lost a brief battle with cancer. le passionait desormais. Along with his departure, our society has lost an impor- I1 appartenait a un milieu hautement cultivC; son ptre, Rene 0tant man. While one may say that no one is irreplace- Gimpel, avait ouvert a New York une galerie de tableaux; ami able, Jean is irreplaceable. His personality combined a hyper- personnel de Monet, de Renoir et de Marcel Proust, il tenait un active mind working at the speed of light, with an uncommon journal que Jean a edite en 1963 sous le titre Journal d'un compassion for mankind's plight, and an insatiable curiosity for Collectionneur. Mais c'etait aussi un resistant qui, pendant la all that touched the human mind. Of remarkable vitality. Jean guerre de 1940, avait avec ses fils sabote plusieurs usines presented a unique mixture of enlightened visionary and little d'armement; decouvert, arrgtt, il avait ete envoye dans le camp boy for he retained one of youth's great qualities: the capacity to de deportation de Bergen-Belsen, d'ou il ne devait pas revenir. marvel. And his marveling has inspired a generation. Jean devait beaucoup l'atmosphtre d'une enfance pendant Jean was agenius if genius means a rare talent, an agile mind, laquelle il lui avait ett tout nature1 de s'entretenir avec Marie and a huge intellect. All one needs to do is read his bibliography Laurencin et de vivre parmi les chefs d'oeuvre. Son pere vouait which is not only impressive by
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