Description: A sweeping collection of essays that explores medieval science, art, and technology in the thirteenth century and points toward new scholarly directions for the study of medieval craft.
Review Quotes: "This is a most worthwhile book. It contains a list of excellent papers that, collectively, offer as careful a synthesis of (pricipally American) scholarship on late medieval art, architecture and technology as one could hope for. The editing is sharp and the images in the book are, overall, crisp and clear. The reprinting of various essays should, I believe, be seen as a strength rather than a weakness: the essays are carefully rethought and expanded, and presenting them here means that they will rightfully be read by the academic community at large rather than simply the former subscribers to AVISTA. This book will surely feature on many a graduate syllabus and should also feature on the shelves of scholars." Matthew M. Reeve, in Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 177.1 (2024).