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New New Toledo Cathedral The Noisy Renaissance Building Histories in Medieval Castile Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Tom Nickson Urban Life Winner, 2016 Eleanor Tufts Award, Niall Atkinson American Society for Hispanic Art “In this compelling study of the lost Historical Studies soundscape of early Florence—a “A masterly exploration and minute dynamic field of aural signals and analysis of a soaring masterpiece, Tom celebrations rung from its many Nickson’s revelatory study directs new church and civic bells—Niall Atkin- and penetrating light onto the social son combines wide-ranging research, importance—and architectural signifi- deft analysis, and imaginative writ- cance—of his subject.” ing. Anything but noise on a highly —Peter Linehan, St. John’s College, original and important subject.” University of Cambridge —Marvin Trachtenberg, New York University “With this imposing study of the primatial cathedral of Spain, Tom Nickson has written one of the outstanding architectural monographs in the history of Span- “Atkinson’s bold reimagining brings ish (and European) Gothic. But, as the author underlines, the book is as much us directly into the lives of Renais- concerned with the building of history as the history of building. It reconciles sance Florentines through their many separate studies on the cathedral and blends new Spanish art-historical shouts and whispers, their ringing scholarship with close documentary archaeology. Above all, it presents a rich over- bells and riotous rebellions, their lay of Roman, Visigothic, and Islamic cultures and integrates them into Toledo’s stories, prayers, and songs. This in- active communities of Jews, Muslims, Christians, and confessional converts— novative use of sound to understand questions of ethnic identity which still dominate our own concerns. Spain, at last, how Florentines constructed and oc- has the cathedral it deserves.” cupied space gives acute insight into —Paul Crossley, The Courtauld Institute of Art the messy and conflicted dynamics of a city usually approached through “Few studies of Spanish Gothic architecture address the history and significance texts and images. This is a new and of a major cathedral with such mastery as does Tom Nickson’s Toledo Cathedral. deeper Florence, infinitely richer Nickson’s meticulous scrutiny of primary texts and material evidence builds a for mapping the sensory lives and cogent, persuasive construction narrative that illuminates the roots and trajec- horizons of its people. Soundscapes tory of Toledo Cathedral’s distinctive design, while his reconstruction of the late were not just a consequence of daily medieval people, objects, and performances that animated this great building life—they built and organized it, and sheds unprecedented light on its continuing importance to a city bent on as- at times even overturned it.” serting its centrality to Iberian history, politics, and culture. Blending tradition- —Nicholas Terpstra, al architectural analysis with incisive social history, this impressive, generously University of Toronto illustrated book will reshape our understanding not just of Toledo’s history and 288 pages | 9 × 10 | 8/2016 meaning but also of the story and significance of Gothic architecture in Spain.” 49 color/111 b&w illustrations —Pamela Patton, Princeton University isbn 978-0-271-07119-0 | cloth: $89.95 sh A book in the Art History Publication Initiative Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to siz- (ahpi), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. able Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral—one of the Mellon Foundation largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe—is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth analysis of the cathedral’s art and architecture. Focusing on the early thirteenth to the late fourteenth century, he examines over two hundred years of change and consoli- dation, tracing the growth of the cathedral in the city as well as the evolution of sacred places within the cathedral itself. Nickson goes on to consider this sub- stantial monument in terms of its location in Toledo, Spain’s most cosmopoli- tan city in the medieval period. He also addresses the importance and symbolic significance of Toledo’s cathedral to the city and the art and architecture of the medieval Iberian Peninsula, showing how it fits in with broader narratives of change in the arts, culture, and ideology of the late medieval period in Spain and in Mediterranean Europe as a whole. 320 pages | 60 color/80 b&w illus. | 9 × 10 | 2015 isbn 978-0-271-06645-5 | cloth: $89.95 sh A book in the Art History Publication Initiative (ahpi), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation www.psupress.org | 1 New New in Paperback The Arras Witch Treatises The Transformations of Johannes Tinctor’s Invectives contre la Magic secte de vauderie and the Recollectio casus, Illicit Learned Magic in the Later status et condicionis Valdensium ydolatrum Middle Ages and Renaissance by the Anonymous of Arras (1460) Frank Klaassen Edited and translated by Andrew Colin Gow, Robert B. Desjardins, Winner, 2014 Margaret Wade Labarge and François V. Pageau Prize, Canadian Society of Medievalists “This scholarly and remarkably clear “Well argued and well researched, [The translation of two extremely important Transformations of Magic] represents a treatises regarding the infamous witch thorough and scholarly treatment of hunt in Arras circa 1460 provides a medieval magical texts, as well as an fascinating glimpse into the mind-set engrossing read.” —Michael Heyes, of two promoters of witch hunting who Religious Studies Review defined demonic heresy and justi- “Klaassen’s elegantly written mono- fied the use of cruel tactics to extract graph is an incisive analysis of an un- confessions. Revealing both similarity derstudied body of evidence. His argu- to and significant differences from ment that two types of ‘illicit learned other demonological works, The Arras magic’ characterized the period be- Witch Treatises offers an exciting new tween 1300 and 1600 brings coherence resource for both teaching and scholarship.” and clarity to an intellectual tradition —Gary K. Waite, University of New Brunswick that has too often been overlooked. By “This important work sheds much light on the fifteenth-century origins of the locating magical texts within broad witch craze. The ‘elaborated theory’ of witchcraft described here is absolutely theological, philosophical, and schol- fascinating, not just because it predates the classic era of witch hunting by a cen- arly traditions and by emphasizing the tury but also because it was so incoherent and contentious and yet terrifyingly continuities between medieval ritual relevant to changing social and political conditions. This is a story about medieval magic and Renaissance texts, Klaassen superstition as well as the modernity of print and law and state building.” challenges his readers to see medieval —Malcolm Gaskill, University of East Anglia and Renaissance intellectual culture in new ways. His work thus not only The Arras Witch Treatises presents for the first time complete and accessible Eng- makes a valuable contribution to the lish translations of two major source texts—Tinctor’s Invectives and the Anony- history of magic in the premodern era, mous’s Recollectio—that arose from the famous Arras witch hunts and trial in the but also participates in conversations mid-fifteenth century in France. These writings by the “Anonymous of Arras” (be- about the periodization of the Middle lieved to be trial judge Jacques du Bois) and the intellectual Johannes Tinctor offer Ages and the Renaissance.” valuable eyewitness perspectives on the trials and persecution of alleged witches. —2014 Margaret Wade Labarge More important, they provide a window onto the divergent views on witchcraft Prize Committee and demonology that arose in Arras and surrounding regions during the late me- 280 pages | 6 × 9 | 2013 dieval period. Along with the translations, the volume includes a student-friendly isbn 978-0-271-05627-2 | paper: $34.95 sh introduction, which situates the treatises and trials in their historical and intel- Magic in History Series lectual contexts, and a critical apparatus aimed toward classroom use. 136 pages | 1 map | 6 × 9 | 2016 isbn 978-0-271-07128-2 | paper: $24.95 sh Magic in History Sourcebooks Series The Arras Witch Treatises is the first volume in the Magic in History Sourcebooks series.