Lydia Lymbourides
University of Zurich
Institute of Art History

Rämistrasse 73
CH- 8006 Zurich

Office:
Rämistrasse 59
2nd Floor, G21

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Lydia Lymbourides

Lydia Lymbourides is a Doctoral Fellow at the Chair for Medieval Art History at the University of Zurich. She holds a BA in Fine Art Photography (Zurich University of the Arts) and an MA in Art History (University of Zurich). In 2023, she was awarded a startup grant by the Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. In 2024, she received a Candoc research fellowship from the University of Zurich for her dissertation project “The Rock Crystal Crucifix after the Fourth Crusade. Numinous Nexus between Heavenly Spheres and Earthly Environments”. The subject of the study are crosses from the 13th and 14th centuries, which are made almost entirely of rock crystal and can be found in collections throughout Europe. First recorded in 1985 by art historians Susanne Brugger-Koch and Hans R. Hahnloser, this corpus has received little scholarly attention so far.

Selected Publications

• Lydia Lymbourides: Veranstaltungsbericht. Superficies – Surfaces, Skins and Textures. Sensory Encounters with Books and Related Multi-layered Objects. Internationale Konferenz, Universität Zürich, 18.–20. Januar 2024, in: Medialität. Historische Perspektiven 28 (2024), 31–33. For more

https://www.khist.uzh.ch/de/chairs/mittelalter/mitarbeitende/Lydia-Lymbourides.html

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Viviane Maeder
University of Zurich
Institute of Art History

Rämistrasse 73
CH- 8006 Zurich

Office:
Rämistrasse 59
2nd Floor, G21

Viviane Maeder

Viviane Maeder studied Business Administration and Art History at the Universities of St. Gallen and Zurich. In 2022, she completed her master’s degree at the University of Zurich with a thesis on the author portraits in 10th-century manuscripts from the Einsiedeln Monastery. During her master’s studies, she was part of the digitization team at the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zurich and joined “Textures of Sacred Scriptures” as an assistant in 2021. She is currently pursuing her dissertation on 19th-century Swiss art publishing (University of Zurich).

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Dr. Beatrice Radden Keefe
University of Zurich
Institute of Art History

Rämistrasse 73
CH- 8006 Zurich

Office:
Rämistrasse 59
2nd Floor, G21

Beatrice Radden Keefe

Beatrice Radden Keefe studied art history and medieval history at the University of St Andrews (UK). She graduated from St Andrews in 2002 with an MA dissertation on the Corbie Psalter. In 2008, she received her PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art (UK), with a thesis on the illustrated manuscripts of Terence’s comedies. Her research areas include profane medieval art and the medieval reception of the classics. She has taught at the University of Zurich since 2015.

Selected Publications

• The Illustrated Afterlife of Terence’s Comedies (800 – 1200). Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2021
• “The Manuscripts and Illustration of Plautus and Terence,” in The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy, ed. Martin Dinter, 276-96. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• “Creative Borrowing in the Leiden Terence,” in After the Carolingians: Manuscript Illumination in the Tenth–Eleventh Centuries, ed. Beatrice Kitzinger and Joshua O’Driscoll, 57-85. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.
• “Illustrating the Manuscripts of Terence,” in Terence between Late Antiquity and the Age of Printing. Illustration, Commentary, and Performance, ed. Andrew Turner and Giulia Torello-Hill, 36-66. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
• “Surveying Damage in the Walters Rose (W.143),” in A New Look at Old Things, ed. Kathryn B. Gerry and Richard A. Leson. Special Issue of The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 68/69 (2012): 97-106

https://www.khist.uzh.ch/de/chairs/mittelalter/mitarbeitende/Ehemalige-Mitarbeitende/Beatrice-RaddenKeefe.html

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Manami Ryu, M. A.
University of Zurich
Institute of Art History

Rämistrasse 73
CH- 8006 Zurich

Office:
Rämistrasse 59
2nd Floor, G21

Manami Ryu

Manami Ryu did Christian Studies as a BA student at the Rikkyo University (Tokyo, JP) and Western Art History as an MA student at the Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo, JP). She graduated in 2016 with an MA thesis on the Carolingian Apocalypse of Valenciennes and related manuscripts. After spending time as a visiting student at the University of Zurich, she started her PhD in 2019 as a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (Schweizerisches Bundes-Exzellenz-Stipendium) holder. Her research field is the art of the early Middle Ages, with a particular focus on Insular illumination and Carolingian illustrated manuscripts influenced by Insular art. She is currently at work on her dissertation, which focuses on illuminated manuscripts kept at the Abbey of St. Gall, and has the title: “Die irische Buchkunst des Klosters St. Gallen und ihr kunstgeschichtlicher Einfluss auf die frühmittelalterlichen Handschriften”.

Selected Publications

https://researchmap.jp/Manami_Ryu

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