Villard's Legacy is in reminiscence of the prestigious iconoclastic historian, Jean Gimpel, and represents a primary contribution to the recent AVISTA sequence with Ashgate Publishing. AVISTA used to be the brainchild of Gimpel, a genius at making the perfect humans meet to strengthen wisdom via a confluence of rules drawn both from the sensible and scholarly domain names. 16 papers and a tribute to Gimpel underscore this confluence of know-how, technological know-how and paintings inside medieval tradition. accurately, six papers provide new interpretations on points of Villard de Honnecourt's portfolio, which Gimpel rightly famous and promoted as a distinct and invaluable list of pre-modern know-how and tradition. This thirteenth-century manuscript is referred to now to a much broader public because the earliest testimony left by means of a grasp builder in Gothic Europe. Of specific importance, for the 1st time in 8 centuries, a Compagnon du Devoir, initiated within the comparable oral culture as Villard, opens the door to studying those notable drawings. 3 papers tackle formerly overlooked facets within the building of French and English Gothic church buildings, from the engineering of aerodynamic spires, to the elastic fabrics of vault webbing, to the social conventions of formal layout. 3 different individuals deal with crucial parts of a broader technological tradition, reminiscent of the pony harness and the minting of cash, in addition to the applicability of medieval expertise to the trendy global, specifically 3rd international nations, a venture pioneered by means of Gimpel. 4 papers finish the amount by means of treating the sciences of degree and their cultural expression in medieval Europe, embracing either the innovations of area and time, geometry as a mathematical self-discipline, and the image expression of medical information. those interdisciplinary experiences are entire in chronological and geographic variety, extending from the eighth to fifteenth centuries, from eire throughout Europe.