From Colleen.McDonald@comcast.net Sat Apr 9 14:46:08 2005 Received: from mxe1.u.washington.edu (mxe1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.136]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.13.3+UW05.01/8.13.3+UW05.01) with ESMTP id j39Lk8DV088006 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 14:46:08 -0700 Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mxe1.u.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.03/8.13.3+UW05.01) with ESMTP id j39Lk79t031231 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 14:46:07 -0700 Received: from lioness (c-67-171-42-224.hsd1.wa.comcast.net[67.171.42.224]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id <2005040921460601200rsndre>; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 21:46:07 +0000 Subject: Sources of interest From: Colleen L McDonald To: bunstable@u.washington.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:46:05 -0700 Message-Id: <1113083165.9568.35.camel@lioness> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.49 on 140.142.32.136 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__C230066_P5 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Greetings all, Here are more sources that I thought might be of interest. Subjects covered include: Italian Renaissance Art Castles, fortresses and churches; History of Scandinavia; 15th century wills and testaments from Lausanne, France; The Silk Road; The collected papers from the Society for Medieval Archaeology meeting; Clocks and timekeeping; and Maps of Scotland. Happy researching! In service, I remain Lady Cainder nic Sheanlaoich, JdL, GdS, PdO Research junkie *************************************************************** For those interested in Italian Renaissance art, here's a link to the current exhibit at the Met: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId= {F623B20A-113E-414E-BFF0-34CAADB71574}&HomePageLink=special_c3b and here's the information about the book accompanying the exhibit: >From Filippo Lippi to Piero Della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master, Edited by Keith Christiansen, 2005: In 1934 the Italian government lifted restrictions governing the gabled Barberini Collection in Rome, making it possivle for two intriguing fifteenth-century paintings to be put on the international art market. Within just two years both had been sold—one to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the other to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Neither their authorship nor their subjects were certain, but their ambitious depiction of architecture no less than their discursive, anecdotal approach to narration made them unique among Early Renaissance paintings. Who was their author? What was their function? How to explain their mastery of perspective and their sophisticated architectural settings? Building on over a century of scholarship as well as completely new archival information, this cataloger proposes answers to all three questions. In doing so, it examines the art of Florence in the 1440s and the work of, among others, Fra Filippo Lippi, Domenico Venetian, Luca Della Robbi, and Michel's. It then turns to the introduction of Renaissance style north of the Apennines, in the region of the Marches, and to the culture of the court at Urbano in the third quarter of the fifteenth century, dominated by its ruler, Federico DA Monteverdi, the humanist-architect Leon Batista Alberto, and the sublime painter Piero Della Francesca. ********************************************************************** For those interested in castles, fortresses and churches: Harrison, Peter. Castles of God: Fortified Religious Buildings of the World. Wood bridge: Boy dell Press, 2004. Pp. 304. £30.00 (HBO). ISBN: 1-84383-066-3. ********************************************************************** For those studying medieval Scandinavia: Heller, Knit, ed. The Cambridge History of Scandinavia. Volume I. Prehistory to 1520. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xx + 872. $160.00 (HBO). ISBN: 0-521-47299-7. ************************************************************************ For those interested in 15th century France, here's a work on the wills and testaments from Lausanne (in French): Lavanchy, Lisane. Ecrire sa mort, decrire sa vie. Testaments de laics lausannois (1400-1450). Cahiers Lausannois d'Histoire Medieval, Vol. 32. Lausanne: Universite de Lausanne, 2003. Pp. 381. $35.00 (pb). ISBN: 2-940110-45-X ********************************************************************* For the folks interested in the Silk Road: ISBN: 0714844098 (hbk.) : $49.95 Nebenzahl, Kenneth, 1927- Mapping the Silk Road and beyond : 2,000 years of exploring the East / Kenneth Nebenzahl. London ; New York : Phaidon, c2004. 176 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 26 x 30 cm. Includes glossary and chronology. Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-172) and index. CONTENTS: Pt. 1. Ancient and Medieval European concepts of Asia -- Pt. 2. The impulse to explore the East -- Pt. 3. East Indian empires : Portuguese, Dutch, British, French, Spanish -- Pt. 4. Resisting European encroachment : Japan, Korea, China -- Pt. 5. North to Cathay and the Pacific. 1. Cartography--Asia--History. 2. Asia--Historical geography--Maps. 3. Silk Road--Maps. ********************************************************************* For the armchair archaeologists: Hines, John, Alan Lane and Mark Redknap, eds. Land, Sea and Home. The Society for Medieval Archaeology, Monograph 20. Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2004. Pp. vi + 482. £54.00/$98.00 (hb). ISBN: 1-904-350- 25- 9. ******************************************************************* For those interested in clocks and timekeeping: King, David A. In Synchrony with the Heavens: Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civilization. Brill: Leiden and Boston 2004. Pp. lvii + 930. $302.00 (hb). ISBN: 90-04-12233-8. ****************************************************************** For those interested in Scotland, courtesy of Mistress Rafaella: Charting the Nation: Maps of Scotland, 1550-1740 http://images.lib.ed.ac.uk/chartingthenation/ Humans are generally fascinated with maps, both as historical and cultural documents, and in a very pragmatic sense in terms of wayfinding and navigating unfamiliar places. For those users interested in a wide array of maps of Scotland during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, this website will be a welcome find. The project was developed within the University of Edinburgh's Department of Geography, and is currently managed by Edinburgh University Library. The site provides access to 3,500 maps taken from a host of atlases and other bound books, and is complemented by a narrative piece titled "Mapping Scotland: An Essay" by Charles W. J. Withers. Along with looking over some of these many maps, visitors will also want to take a look at the "Useful Links" section, which provides direct access to other relevant sites, including The Gazetteer for Scotland. At the time of this report, the link to the Web browser client required to view the map collection was not working; however, users could download a full-featured Java-based viewer compatible with either Windows Internet Explorer or the Mac OS. [KMG] .