interesting web pages

A collection of pointers that people have provided for the enjoyment and/or edification of others. To add to this list, send email to John Wilkes <john.wilkes@hp.com>.

 

	Chartres Cathedral -- Henri De Feraudy A page of links to photographs and other Chartres-related material.  Part of a larger collection of photographs of churches and castles. [added 2008.06.22]
	Amiens Cathedral -- Columbia Digital Design Lab Top page for Columbia school of architecture's study of Amiens Cathedral. Includes maps, photos, and some superb computer-generated images.
	Virtual tour: view from the top of Durham cathedral. [added 2008.06.22] Great buildings page about Durham Cathedral, with additional links.  [added 2008.06.22] (The earlier link, to A tour of Durham Cathedral , is no longer working. It used to include ground plan and images (with accompanying text) of items in the cathedral keyed to this.)
	Maulbronn Monastery - World Heritage in Baden-Wurttemberg A guided tour of the monastery, using thumbnail images as the guide.
	The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City, which is a mixture of Gothic and Romanesque styles. The site includes a virtual history tour. [updated 2008.06.20]
	AVISTA - Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary study of medieval technology, science, and art "AVISTA is a scholarly organization organized in 1984 through the urging of the late Jean Gimpel (author of The Medieval Machine, The Cathedral Builders, and other works on medieval art and technology) and with the support of Lynn White, Jr. (author of Medieval Technology and Social Change). The articles of incorporation were written in January 1985 and sessions began at Kalamazoo in 1986. The society serves as an organization to promote any and all aspects of medieval topics which relate to the practical sciences or technology. Our "home" is largely the International Congress on Medieval Studies held at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, where each May we sponsor up to a half dozen sessions on various themes." [9/30/2005 - Dick Jones]

From: linda k. jack <at.lkj@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 09:45:13 PST
Subject: Richard III sources

I would suggest you look at the Richard III Home Page at http://www.richard111.com.

The section Ricardian Resources has lots of links including to Georgetown's Labyrinth and many others. A handy place to have most of the links in one place-mostly medieval but not necessarily art/architecture. I can't account for Elvis, Monty Python, or Elvis residing there, but what the heck. Happy viewing. Linda Jack

From: "We've Found the Books You're Looking For" <eyes@amazon.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 01:43:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Amazon.com - an online bookstore

Hi, as per your request, we at Amazon.com Books are notifying you of new books matching the following criteria: keywords include "Gothic architecture". The new books are listed at the end of this message. If you're interested in any of these books you can order them online at http://www.amazon.com/

Arches, Vaults and Buttresses : Masonry Structures and Their Engineering (Collected Studies, Cs546.)by Jacques Heyman.
List: $134.95 -- Amazon.com Price: $134.95
Subjects: Building, Europe, History, Architecture, Medieval, Masonry, Masonry Construction, Gothic Architecture (A.D. 1000-1400)
Publisher: Variorum
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: October 1996
ISBN: 0860785971
URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0860785971

From: linda k. jack <at.lkj@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 13:54:44 +0000

Hi John, Just ran across a new (to me) homepage of interest, http://orb.rhodes.edu, interesting resource.

From: Dick Jones <ARichardJ@aol.com>
Date: Fri Dec 20 03:36:50 PST 1996

Some web pages that may be of interest:

http://www.christdesert.org/pax.html

Operated by The Monastery of Christ in the Desert. Nice pictures.

http://www.csbsju.edu/hmml/resources/microfil.html

I got to this from the above. It describes, and tells how to use for a fee (about $50 + tax & tip), the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library containing "more than 25 million pages from nearly 90,000 manuscripts in libraries and archives throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa." [This computes to an average of over 277 pages per manuscript. It seems a rather high average.]

From: Linda Jack <linda.k.jack@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 97 14:40:29 PST
Subject: Gothic Dreams

Folks, here is an interesting homepage with the rather new age name Gothic Dreams: An Earthlore Immersion Experience! Great graphics. The server seems to be down a lot so keep trying. Happy new year, Linda

http://www.globalnet.net/elore/elore04.html

From: John Wilkes <john.wilkes@hp.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 12:33:33 -0800
Subject: Cambridge University's Summer Schools

Information on Cambridge University's Summer Schools - which include general topics, as well as specialized instruction on things like Medieval studies, Art History, and British History, can be found at http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/ContEd/index.html

I took the 2-week Term II course last year, selecting Gothic Architecture, History of the English Country House, and Age of Ambition (15th Century English society), and had a blast. Highly recommended. I can provide more details for anybody interested.

From: Dick Jones <ARichardJ@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:57:27 -0500 (EST)
From: ARichardJ@aol.com
Subject: Books from the internet

I recently found and bought a copy of Knoop & Jones, "The Medieval Mason" by using the search facilities available at: http://antiquarian.comm

They also offer (for a price, I think) to let you enter a list of books you want, so booksellers can find you.

Dick Jones

From: Dick Jones <ARichardJ@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:21:35 -0500 (EST)
From: ARichardJ@aol.com
Subject: Medieval Price List

Some of you may have seen a "Medieval Price List" of about ten pages, giving prices for a wide range of items in medieval times. It can be obtained from:

http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/~mcarthur/medieval.html

Dick Jones

From: Dick Jones <ARichardJ@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 13:26:20 -0500 (EST)
From: ARichardJ@aol.com
Subject: Amiens Videotape

I have ordered one of these videotapes, as you will see from the correspondence below the description. You presumably can order one too, using this information. Or, if you are very, very good, you might get to see mine. The Amiens project has a very fancy web site at:

http://www.arch.columbia.edu/DDL/projects/amiens/index.html

-- Dick Jones

The Summer 1996 issue of COLUMBIA, the alumni magazine of Columbia University, has an article entitled "The Amiens Project," describing work Professor (of Art History and Archeology, presumably at Columbia) Stephen Murray has directed. The work product includes "a thirteen-minute video of computer animation that is designed for in-class use. The video ... begins by soaring to the heavens, as the Cathedral was to do, and then places the structure in the context of medieval Amiens, a city of compact wooden houses.

" ... The film's computer graphics illustrate how the Cathedral's architects used an interacting matrix of lines to form the specific geometric and theological forms that are embedded in the Cathedral itself.

" 'We used dynamic geometry for the first time on video to show how the Cathedral's design was based on "golden sections" whose measurements were derived from biblical references,' Murray says. ... the Cathedral's foundation literally unfolds from these platonic forms into a house of worship.

" '... these geometrical shapes "morph" into the actual Cathedral, simulating its fifty-year construction in a matter of minutes.' "

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Date: 02/20/97
To: msl5@columbia.edu
Subject: Amiens Project Videotape

Is there any way to obtain the videotape the Amiens project has produced? I read about it in the Summer, 1996 issue of COLUMBIA

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Date: 02/20/97
To: ARichardJ@aol.com
Subject: Re: Amiens Project Videotapee

Send a check for $29.95 made out to Columbia University and indicating NEH Challenge Grant in the note to:

Media Center for Art History
Columbia University
826 Schermerhorn Hall
1190 Amsterdam Avee
New York, NY 10027

/Maurice Luker
Executive Producer
Media Center for Art History

From: Bob Nyden <Frumenty@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 11:43:42 -0500 (EST)
Subject: web site review

I came across this web site last night: http://www1.pitt.edu/~medart
It amounts to a personal web site done by M. Allison Stones, a medievalist professor and author at U. of Pittsburg, featuring art and architecture of churches, castles, cathedrals and other medieval buildings. She provides country maps (Eng. and France, with others in progress) with clickable locations to bring up each building; there are photos, plans and section drawings (most have thumbnail versions and load quickly). Completeness is hit or miss. Romsey Abbey and Winchester have many nice photos of inside details. For Salisbury there is no photo or drawing that even hints at the existance of a tower and spire! She has also scanned in quite a few maps (which download slowly).

From: Bob Nyden <Frumenty@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:38:40 -0500 (EST))
Subject: Old Books

If you're looking for old, rare, out-of-print, or other hard-to-find books, I have two web sites for you to try.

One is the Advanced Book Exchange: http://www.abebooks.com
It links bookstores from all over the world to a pretty good search engine (use as few search criteria as possible). I found several books I've been looking for and some I'd already bought (but I paid more $). If you want to order a specific book, there's a ready-made e-mail form waiting for you.

The other site is for the Anitquarian Booksellers Ass'n. It also links to worldwide booksellers and has links to other web sites. I found this one harder to use and my searches weren't very fruitful. You might have better luck. It is at: http://www.abaa-booknet.com.

Bob Nyden

From: Julia Fremon <jfremon@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri Nov 7 09:31:46 PST 1997
Subject: Salisbury Cathedral URL

... Salisbury Cathedral has a new [web site] -- http://www.eluk.co.uk/spirenet

FFrom: Elaine Kriegh <kriegh@jordan.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:11:34 PSTbr> Subject: Fwd: Web Site interest

At work here (Jordan Middle School) I was asked to look at some prospective sites for students to do research and of course I found some that would interest you and the other Sarum members.

Take a look at http://www.elore.com

They have a site called "Gothic Dreams" that is really interesting. Too much to describe here!

Also - http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/ - This is another good list of medieval sites. I went in under architecture and found a site for medieval from Catholic University that has all sorts of stuff. This is how I got to the Gothic Dreams site.

From: Linda Jack <jobs@stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:22:34 -0800
Subject: calendar calculator

Folks, this website may be of interest. Linda

http://www.albion.edu/fac/engl/calendar/

This site is intended to replace clumsy handbooks of dates for students of English history and literature. It is also accurate for European history outside of England, with the exception of the period 1582-1752. Students of Continental history will need to follow this link (http://www.albion.edu/fac/engl/Calendar/Europe.htm) if they wish to date documents from this period.

FFrom: Bob Nyden <Frumenty@aol.com>
Date: Wed Oct 6 22:43:05 PDT 1999br> Subject: Medieval internet links

This web site has some fascinating Anglo-Saxon material, including several Old English poems read in the vernacular (you need to have Real Audio's RealPlayer installed--a link to do that precedes the poetry). There's also an article about birds in Dark Ages Europe, links to download runic and Old English fonts, and a couple of papers about Anglo-Saxon calendars that include a Java program for calculating today's date by A-S reckoning. The interlace graphics are fun, too.

Bob Nyden http://www.kami.demon.co.uk/gesithas/index.html