A prayer roll made for Margaret of Anjou (1430–1482), queen consort to Henry VI of England, has received little attention despite its production for a queen Shakespeare called the “shewolf of France.” Previous descriptions have characterized the roll as a conventional display of female piety and evidence of Margaret’s devotion to the Virgin…[Read more]

Many medieval manuscripts suffered from antiquarian zeal during the eighteenth-century revival of interest in medieval art: enthusiasts often augmented their own albums and private collections by removing attractive illuminations from manuscript pages, leaving wounded books in their wake. Less familiar is the restorative work of their…[Read more]

Drimmer, “Picturing the King or Picturing the Saint: Two Miniature Programmes for John Lydgate’s Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund,” Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, 1350-1550: Packaging, Presentation, and Consumption, ed. Cayley and Powell (Liverpool University Press, 2013), 48-67.

Drimmer, “Visualizing Intertextuality: Conflating Forms of Creativity in Late Medieval ‘Author Portraits,'” in Citation, Intertextuality, and Memory, vol. 2, ed. Di Bacco and Plumley (University of Liverpool Press, 2013).

Though John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is remembered principally for his work as a theorist, art critic, and historian of visual culture, he wrote exhaustively about his health in his correspondence and diaries. Ruskin was prone to recurring depressive and hypochondriacal feelings in his youth and adulthood. In 1871, at the age of 52, he developed an i…[Read more]

This article edits and discusses a Latin love poem written by a previously unknown woman writer, Lady Elizabeth Dacre, in the 1550s.

Basierend auf der Bearbeitung des äußerst seltenen Werks „Beschreibung einer Legation und Reise von Wien aus Ostereich auff Constantinopel, durch den wolgebornen herrn, herrn David Ungnaden, Freyherrn zu Sonneck und Pfandsherrn auff Bleyburgk, auß römischer keyserlichen Majestät befehlig und abforderung an den türckischen Keyser, anno 72 verrich…[Read more]

This thesis is a study of all aspects of writing and reading connected with Sir John
Fastolf, a military captain and steward of the household of John Duke of Bedford,
who returned to England from the later battles of the Hundred Years War in 1438.
Using the circumstantial, palaeographical, and codicological evidence contained in
the letters,…[Read more]

Die Präsentation gibt einen Überblick über die Aktivitäten im Zusammenhang mit Open Access an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien und ihrem institutionellen Repositorium ]a[repository. Im ersten Teil wird auf die Fragen “Was kann hier veröffentlicht werden?” und “Wie können Hochschulschriften und andere Publikationen im Akadem…[Read more]