https://mla.hcommons.org/members/sonjadrimmer/activity/ Activity feed for Sonja Drimmer. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:04:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 7bf0326a96036fe67b4d55b7c3456d5f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665676/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 22:07:59 -0400 Drimmer, “Unnoticed and Unusual: An Illustration in a Manuscript of John Lydgate’s Fall of Princes,” Journal of the Early Book Society 20 (2017): 209-18.

]]> 0 b50c91a451a8fc2756727d0a61357e85 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665675/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 22:07:10 -0400 Drimmer, “The Disorder of Operations: Illuminators, Scribes, and John Gower’s Confessio Amantis,” LIAS 44 (2017): 5-28.

]]> 0 cff896235f35cd06cfe822cfb7f30ae5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665674/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 22:05:14 -0400 This essay argues that late medieval manuscript producers were both aware of and at times troubled by the ontological ambiguity of the medium in which they worked. Nelson Goodman’s aesthetic philosophy provides an apt framework for characterizing this ambiguity, which rests on the manuscript’s dual status as both an allograph and an autograph. Emb…[Read more]

]]> 0 adb9b192811ca4973e742748538dcdac https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665673/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 22:03:19 -0400 Drimmer, “The Painters of Late Medieval London and Westminster,” Burlington Magazine CLIX (2017): 445-49.

]]> 0 93a44bbc2b8c46c3ace920483610e838 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665647/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:33:24 -0400 This article examines a manuscript in the British Library that offers one of the earliest known illustrated dictionaries of Egyptian (pseudo)hieroglyphs produced in Early Modern Europe. The c.1507 book was based on a manuscript that purports to define Egyptian hieroglyphs and which was found on a Greek Island. It was translated and written by an…[Read more]

]]> 0 2505a9af5251642ef0ed34aa69df101d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665644/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:24:24 -0400 This article proposes that the responsibility for literary failure in a manuscript culture could lie with the manuscript itself. During the later Middle Ages, writers’ acts of composition and presentation established goals by which a form of non-commercial success may be measured, and traces of manuscript owners’ activities in books index the ach…[Read more]

]]> 0 c60e2409889280f8a637d029ab6b93df https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665642/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:22:54 -0400 Drimmer, “Questionable Contexts: A Pedigree Book and Queen Elizabeth’s Teeth,” in Scholars and Poets Talk about Queens, ed. Carole Levin and Christine Stewart-Nuñez (New York: Palgrave, 2015), 203-224.

]]> 0 f9071f5d3e069fd81fbca4e998553673 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665641/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:21:16 -0400 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]

]]> 0 ccc87f3655a04f7d3a5bdfb47fef936a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665638/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:17:53 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f30a95fe97d0fbfe7ab8b8a114b92bb5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665636/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:15:28 -0400 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.

]]> 0 23b7dcd4e088348be7b3c528f7204b48 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665635/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:10:57 -0400 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).

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