Power, Patronage, and Production Book Arts from Central Europe (ca. 800-1500) in American Collections

Jeffrey F. Hamburger is Kuno Francke Professor of German Art & Culture, Harvard University. The author of numerous works, his most recent publications include Spaces of Knowledge in Medieval Diagrams (2025) and Flesh and Fabric: The Raiment of the Passion in a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti (2024), and, as co-editor, The Ladies on the Hill: The Female Monastic Communities at the Aristocratic Monasteries of Klosterneuburg and St. George's in Prague (2024) and Wir Schwestern: Die vergessenen Chorfrauen von Klosterneuburg (2024). He was awarded the Gutenberg Prize by the city of Mainz and the International Gutenberg Society in 2022.

Beatrice Kitzinger is Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. The author of The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age (2019), she has co-edited, with Joshua O'Driscoll, After the Carolingians: Re-defining Manuscript Illumination in the 10th and 11th Centuries. With Kathryn Starkey and Fiona Griffiths, she is also a founding editor of the interdisciplinary series, Sense, Matter, and Medium: New Approaches to Medieval Literary and Material Culture.

Joshua O'Driscoll is Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. With Jeffrey Hamburger, he co-curated Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500 (2021-2022). He has also organized several other exhibitions, including The Book of Marvels: Wonder and Fear in the Middle Ages (2024), Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life (2025), and Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions (2026).