Ongoing Projects
Manuscript Connections
Between about 1250 and 1350, commercial production of deluxe illuminated manuscripts expanded to serve royal and aristocratic patrons across northern Europe. This collaborative project utilizes computational approaches such as similarity measurement, social network analysis, and computer vision to contextualize trends in metropolitan and provincial European manuscript workshops. It draws on the structured data published in two print catalogs—Alison Stones’s Gothic Manuscripts (2013–2014) and Lilian M. C. Randall’s Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts (1966)—to systematically trace various forms of contact between manuscript workshops and analyze trends in the style and iconography of manuscripts. In 2019, this project was selected to participate in the international Advanced Workshop on Network Analysis and Digital Art History (NA+DAH), sponsored by the Getty Foundation.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
“Before 1297? St. Louis and Questions of Devotional Manuscript Dating,” in Illuminating a Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lawrence Nees, ed. Lynley Anne Herbert, Isabelle Lachat, and Stephen M. Wagner (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024), 221-242.
“Beyond Comparative Analysis: Making Arguments with Similarity Metrics and Structured Manuscript Data, with a Case Study in Marginal Iconography,” co-authored with Alexander Patrick Brey. Manuscript Studies 8, no. 2 (Fall 2023): 232–81.
“Identity, Indeterminacy, and Audience: The Semantics of Portraiture in the De Brailes Hours,” Studies in Iconography 43 (2022): 31–72.
“Looking Beyond the Binary: Gender and Owner Portraits in Later Medieval Devotional Manuscripts,” Different Visions 8 (2022).
“Picturing Men at Prayer: Gender in Manuscript Owner Portraits around 1300,” Getty Research Journal 13 (2021): 31–62.
“Visual Pleasure and the Illuminated Prayer Book,” 77–111, in Pleasure in the Middle Ages, ed. Naama Cohen-Hanegbi and Piroska Nagy, International Medieval Research (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018).
“Prayer, Seduction, and Agency in a Thirteenth-Century Psalter,” Essays in Medieval Studies 30 (2014): 37–54.
Other Publications and Online Resources
“Digital Approaches to Medieval Book Arts” (with Alexander Patrick Brey). Invited talk for the International Center for Medieval Art “Digital Approaches to Medieval Art History” talk series, 2023.
“Mysticism and Queer Readings of Christ’s Side Wound in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg,” Smarthistory, June 29, 2020.
“Wrestling with the Devil in the Details,” 20–25, in Inspired: Essays in Honor of Susan Donohue Kuretsky, ed. Elizabeth Nogrady, Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, and Mia M. Mochizuki (Poughkeepsie, NY: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 2018).
Dissertation
“The Portrait Potential: Gender, Identity, and Devotion in Manuscript Owner Portraits, 1230–1320,” PhD diss., Bryn Mawr College, 2015.
For these publications and others, visit my Humanities Commons page or contact me to request a copy.
