Thinking Broadly: Rolls, Codices, Codicology, Connoisseurship, Paleography, and Media Revolutions with Sonja Drimmer
Join host Sandra Hindman and Sonja Drimmer on a special episode of the Les Enluminures podcast! Sandra and Sonja sit down to discuss her most recent article in Speculum \u201cConnoisseurship, Art History and the Paleographical Impasse in Middle English Studies,\u201d as well as her recent work on the \u201crollodex,\u201d framing the relationship between hybrid parchment objects living between the roll and the codex.\nDrimmer is an associate professor at U Mass Amherst specializing in medieval European art with expertise in illuminated manuscripts and early print. She received her BA from Brown University and PhD from Columbia University. Drimmer\u2019s research is largely concerned with premodern notions of authorship and authority, the collaborative nature of artistic production, media theory, reproduction, and the aesthetics and material culture of politics. She maintains a strong interest in historiography and in particular how reproduction and restoration shape the reception of objects over time.\xa0\n\xa0\nPublications and References for Sonja Drimmer:\nSonja Drimmer, The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)\nSonja Drimmer in Speculum \u201cConnoisseurship, Art History and the Paleographical Impasse in Middle English Studies\u201d 2022.