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AVISTA FORUM A4ssociationvillard De Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science and Art AVISTA FORUM A4ssociationVillard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science and Art volume 2 Number 1 Fall 1987 was already ill. He was glad that things had gone so In Memoriam well, because now he would not have theenergy to help Lynn Townsend White, jr. us further. I asked him to please get better, because we needed him to turn to for more wisdom. Together we by Charles Stegeman, President, AVISTA shall have to do our best to further and foster Lynn White's legacy. VISTA MOURNS THE LOSS of a devoted friend. When Other, more established fora have lauded Lynn the idea for AVISTA was formulated in January White's scholarly contributions to a field which he A 1984, I phoned Lynn White for advice. We almost singlehandedly created. I wanted to add spoke for a long time. His advice came from a vast store AVISTA's voice in expressing our indebtedness and of experience. I have spoken with him often since. the sense of loss we experience at the parting of our Every time he followed up our call by a long letter of six inspiring friend. 9 pages or more, written on both sides. These letters contained more useful information than one would expect to find in an average book. While his style was Contents lucid, his thought clear, and the message important. the Page most enduring q~lalityof those pages remains their Lynn White, jr. .........................................................1 warmth . Nominations for Officers and Board Members ....... 2 Lynn White was a kind man. His enthusiasm for AVISTA Sessions at Kalamazm .............................2 the idea of AVISTA made him join and pay his dues Call for Topics ......................................................... 2 well before anyone else, before dues were formulated. Notcs and Queries ....................................................3 He wanted to join right from the start, others would well Reviews of Articles ..................................................5 follow. He was right Work in Progress .....................................................6 Lynn White was a wise man. He helped mold Robert Mark: A Review of John Fitchen's AVISTA into the simple, open format of association Building Construction before Mechanization .... 9 which has made it so attractive to a rapidly growing News and Notes of AVISTA Members ................. 11 community of medievalists. Many of the features Affiliated Societies ................................................ 13 which made our fledgling newsletter a success came Recent and Forthcoming Papers ............................ 14 from him. His wisdom showed most tangibly in the way Activities-Past. Present, Future ............................. 17 he managed to integrate knowledge with feeling, Bibliography of AVISTA Library ......................... 21 whether the subject was practical, scholarly, or organ- , Directory of AVISTA Members ............................ 22 izational in character. Minutes of the Annual Meeting ............................. 26 In mid-January of this year before leaving for a Notes from the Editor ........................................27 term abroad I called Lynn White, for the last time. He AVISTA Membership Application ........................ 27 Page 2 Nominations for Officers an AVISTA FORUM to Board of Directors Volume 2 Number 1, Fall 1987 Editor: Pamela 0. Long The terms of the current President, Vice-Presiden 3 100 Connecticut Ave. NW Secretary, and Treasuref will expire in May 1988 #I37 term for two of the eighteen AVISTA board posi Washington, D.C. 20008 will also expire in May 1988. All members encouraged to mail nominations for officers and 0 1987 NISTA, Inc. board members to the head of the AVISTA Nomlna- Association Villard de Honnecourt for the tions Committee: Dr. Charles Radding, Dept. of History. Water Tower Campus. Loyola University of Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Chicago. 6525 N. Sheridan Road. Chicago, IL Technology, Science and Art 60626. 9 Fine Arts Haverford College Haverford, PA 19041 I AVISTA Sessions at officers: I Kalamazoo, May 1988 I President: Charles Stegeman "From the Ground Up: Building Vice-President: Carl F. Barnes, Jr. Technology in the Middle Ages" Secretary: Mary-ThCrbe Zenner Treasurer: William W. Clark Counsel: Holbrook M. Bunting, Jr. These interdisciplinary sessions may include papers on any aspect of medieval construction from planning, European Director: Jean Gimpel organization and financing through the archaeological examination and identification of building campaigns. U.S.Directors: Jean Bony In the case of archaeological studies, efforts will be Marjorie Boyer made to focus on the technological aspects. Theoreti- , Franqois Bucher cal questions, such as what constitutes a building Dale Kinney campaign, and the analysis of historical documenta- Barbara Kreutz tion relating to construction pmesses and procedures Yoshio Kusaba will be treated. Abstracts of the papers will appear in David S. Landes the Spring 1988 issue of AVISTA Forum. 9 Pamela 0. Long Vivian Paul Charles M. Radding Call for Topics George Saliba Lynn White, Jr. Suggestions for topics are needed for the May (29 April 1907-30 March 1987) 1989 AVISTA sessions of the Kalamazoo Con- ference. Please send your suggestions to Charles AVISTA FORUM is produced by Stegeman, President, AVISTA, Fine Arts, Haver- The Laser Touch. Inc. based in Conshohockn, PA. ford College, Haverford, PA 19041-1392. Q Page 3 sance commerce. Symbolic acquiring of property Notes and Queries occurs already in the Old Testament and in Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis. The Digestae mentions a second HIS SECTION IS DESIGNED to encourage the ex- century AD legal practice accredited to Gaius, accord- change of information and ideas and to facilitate ing to which the transfer of property on storaged goods the solution of technical problems. Each query is is executed, if the keys of the storage facility are I T assigned a number keyed to the issue number of handed over to the buyer. I would like to know if AVISTA Forum. The notes are replies to specific somebody could refer me to a primary or secondary queries and are numbered accordingly. Many queries source where symbolic transfer is mentioned to have lend themselves to more than one answer. Responses been executed in late (9th to 15th century) medieval to queries in any issue are most welcome as are times or during the Renaissance. It is interesting to additional queries. "Notes and Queries" is one reason mention that symbolic transfer did not exist in England you should keep back issues of AVISTA Forum. Send until the late 18th century. your note or query to the Editor. 4-4 (2.1): P.O. Long needs to see a copy of the QUERIES following: ~lphonse~ain. ~es manuscripts d kele Tacticien, d'hclkpiodoto le Philosopile, des Traitks Q-l(2.1): Mary Carmthers. Dept of English.Univer- tactique d'drrien (Paris, 1934). This work is not in the sity of Illinois, Chicago: I would very much like to Library of Congress, is not listed in the Union Catalog. know of any occurrences of the Latin noun torus (m.), nor is it in the OCLC data base. She assumes it is in especially in medieval soyrces. I have found the word Paris but needs to see it in thenext few months and will used in a memory treatise of about 1335 atlributed to not be able to get to Parig during that time. Does Thomas Bradwardine, where, from the context, it anyone know of a library that has it where it can be should mean what the modem word"torso" means, the obtained through interlibrary loan, or does anyone trunk of the body without its limbs. According to the have a copy that can be briefly borrowed? dictionaries, in ancient usage the word could mean "muscle, brawn" (especially used in the plural) or Q-5 (2.1): Robert E. Jarnison. Dept. of Mathematical "swelling" or "pillow." From the Renaissance on, its Science. Clemson University. would like to know the meanings were restricted to particular forms in archi- best sources on the life and personality of Gerbert tecture (where it refers to the thickest "ring" at the (Pope Sylvester 11.999-1003) and his translation of bottom of a column" and in geometry (refemng to the Euclid. What impact did the translation have on art and "doughnut" figure). architecture? Did it have any known impact on prac- tical technology, e.g.. architectural practices? 4-2 (2.1): Carolyn Cooper. History of Science Dept Yale University: Where and how may I obtain a good- 4-6 (2.1): Professor Jamison also sent a note on quality photograph or preferably a slide for classroom Richard Ivo Schneider's abstract concerning the wheel use of the replica hydraulic saw which has been built and circle (vol. 1.2, p. 9) and a query. He notes that in "on the main square of Honnecourt." Is it a working the Basler Miinster there is a "rose" window over the replica? north portal, the Gallus Pforte. Originally this was made of wood (parts still remain in the Stadt-und 4-3 (2.1): Dr. Ervin Bonkalo. Sudbury. Ontario. Miinster Museum) and may have represented a mov- Canada has the following query: Upon the suggestion able (!) wheel of fortune. Are there other examples of the editor of a university press, which already know of movable wooden wheels of fortune? Is accepted my manuscript for publication, I have to anything known about the mechanism of movement write an additional chapter dealing with symbolic and the occasions on which they might be moved? transfer of goods in late medieval and early renais- Page 4 NOTES Szecheny Library of Budapest Hungary (Cod. Medii Aevi 403) is a 24 sheet parchment code Note to Q-1 (1.2): Ellen Wells, Dibner Library, Master P, usually called Anonymous, the scribe National Museum of American History, suggests that Adalbert IV, King of Hungary (1235-1270). In Professor Boyer's statements about medieval vehicles Gesta Hungarorum there is an account of Almos are inaccurate and too generalized. She does not think 819) horn Scitiaand his wars.
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