IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1501: Medieval Woodworking: From Texts to Instruments
Thursday 14 July 2005, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science, Technology and Art in the Middle Ages |
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Organiser: | Steven A. Walton, Science, Technology & Society Program, Pennsylvania State University / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
Moderator/Chair: | Catherine Eagleton, Department of Coins & Medals, British Museum, London |
Paper 1501-a | Mortice or Tenon: Medieval Woodworking in Craft Treatises (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Technology |
Paper 1501-b | Woodworking Evidence in Henri Arnault of Zwolle's 15th-Century Musical Instrument Manuscript (Language: English) Index terms: Music, Technology |
Paper 1501-c | Might Medieval Luthiers Have Been Geometers?: Proportional Design and Stringed Musical Instruments before 1400 (Language: English) Index terms: Music, Technology |
Paper 1501-d | Early 15th-Century Tools and Methods of the Woodworker: Modern Reflections (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Technology |
Abstract | This session will look at objects and texts in medieval woodworking - how did medieval craftsmen make wooden objetcs, and how was the craft written about? The four papers in this session will take evidence from texts, objects and reconstructions as a starting point for discussion of woodworking in theory and practice. |