Margaret Wilson, PhD candidate, recently visited Nuremberg, Germany, in order to conduct object research to further her dissertation project “Making and Breaking Enclosure: The Movement of Art through the Late Medieval Convent.” Margaret examined fifteenth-century manuscripts decorated by the nuns of St. Katherine’s convent at the Nuremberg Stadtbibliothek, and visited the Germanisches Nationalmuseum to view works of monastic art in the permanent collection as well as manuscript art and medieval woodcut prints in the Library and graphic arts special collections. Margaret’s visit to archives, museums, and historical sites in Nuremberg will inform her second dissertation chapter, “The Labor of Enclosure.”

This trip was generously supported by the Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant.