ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html><head><title>Chris Henige - De Fabrica</title> <meta name="Description" content="Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater"> <meta name="Keywords" content="medieval, architecture, church, construction, building, sculpture, stained glass"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link href="defabrica.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body bottomMargin="0" leftMargin="0" topMargin="0" rightMargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <div id="outercontainer"> <div id="uppercontainer"> <div id="leftcolor"></div> <div id="rightcolor"></div> </div> <div id="navigation"> <ul id="navlist"> <li><a href="index.htm">Home</a></li> <li><a href="vitae.htm">Vitae</a></li> <li><a href="Projects.htm">Projects</a></li> <li><a href="portalproject.htm">The Portal Project</a></li> <li id="active"><a href="defabrica.htm" id="current">De Fabrica</a></li> <li><a href="photography.htm">Travel Photography</a></li> <li><a href="contact.htm">Contact</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="innercontainer"> <div id="leftbox"><p>I created De Fabrica in 2010 to address what I considered to be a void in the resources available for scholars of medieval architecture. Over the past 10 years, I have worked with the Australian scholar John James, and more recently with Englishman Jethro Lyne on several projects. Both Jethro and I have assisted John in the production of <i>Ark of God</i>, a massive thesaurus of French Gothic architecture. The three of us conducted a "sculpture tour" of France in the summer of 2009 for a group of interested scholars, and we are currently engaged in organizing the "All Things Stone Colloquium", to be held in May 2011 at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. John and Jethro are also central to The Portal Project, and with me form the core of De Fabrica.</p> <p>De Fabrica is a group of scholars dedicated to the study of all aspects of the medieval building process - from financing to construction to maintenance. During the Middle Ages, the term "fabrica" could be used to refer to the physical building or to the fund which supported its construction and maintenance. As such, it embraces a wide range of disciplines involved in all aspects of the medieval building process.</p> <table id="body" BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH="705"> <tr> <td height="1" width=10 bgcolor="#666666"></td> <td bgcolor="#666666"></td> <td bgcolor="#666666"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="160" align="center" valign="top"><a href="http://facstaff.uww.edu/henigec/defabrica/index.htm" target="_blank"><img src="France091711.jpg" border="0"></a></td> <td width=10></td> <td width="545" height="110" valign="top" align="left"><p><strong>De Fabrica</strong><br><br>Click image to visit the site</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="1" width=10 bgcolor="#666666"></td> <td bgcolor="#666666"></td> <td bgcolor="#666666"></td> </tr> </table> </div> <div id="rightbox"><img src="bourgesglass88.jpg"><br><br>Constructing a Tower<br>Bourges Cathedral<br>13th century<br> </div> </div> <div id="footer"><br><a href="index.htm">Home</a></div> </div> </body></html>