Barbara Baert
is Professor Ordinaries at the department of Art History at KU Leuven, Belgium. For two decades she was part of the Lille-Leuven-London network of which John Lowden was the initiator and beating heart.
Renana Bartal
is a senior lecturer in the Department of Art History at Tel Aviv University. She completed a PhD on fourteenth-century English Apocalypse manuscripts under the supervision of John Lowden and Bianca Kühnel (Hebrew University) in 2009.
Jessica Berenbeim
is University Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College. She was a Kress Institutional Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art, under John Lowden’s supervision.
Alixe Bovey
is Head of Research at The Courtauld Institute of Art. She completed a PhD under John Lowden’s supervision in 2000. This book was largely her idea.
Michelle P. Brown
is Professor Emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies at SAS, University of London and former Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts, British Library. She was made an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of The Courtauld Institute of Art under John Lowden’s sponsorship, going on to join him as co-founder of the Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscript Studies.
Laura Cleaver
is Ussher Lecturer in Medieval Art at Trinity College Dublin. She completed a PhD under John Lowden’s supervision in 2008.
Francesca Demarchi
completed a PhD on Milanese book illumination in 2014 under John Lowden’s supervision.
is a lecturer in History and History of Art at the University of Bristol. She completed her PhD under John Lowden’s supervision in 2005.
Sally Dormer
is a Year Course Director and Tutor at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and Dean of European Studies, a study-abroad semester for the University of the South, Sewanee, and Rhodes College, Tennessee, USA. She completed a PhD on drawings in English manuscripts under John Lowden’s supervision in 1991.
Kathleen Doyle
is the Lead Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library. She completed a PhD on Cistercian manuscripts under John Lowden’s supervision in 2005.
Anne-Marie Eze
is Director of Scholarly & Public Programs at Houghton Library, Harvard University. She completed a PhD on Abbé Luigi Celotti (1759–1843): Connoisseur, Dealer and Collector of Illuminated Miniatures co-supervised by John Lowden and Scot McKendrick in 2010.
Richard Gameson
is Professor of the History of the Book at Durham University. It was as a British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art that he first met John Lowden, and he has benefitted from his academic example, support and friendship ever since.
Kathryn Gerry
has held positions at the Walters Art Museum, the University of Kansas, the Memphis College of Art, and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Bowdoin College. She worked closely with John Lowden when she was a Kress Pre-Doctoral Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art, from 2005 to 2007.
Maria R. Grasso
is an independent scholar. John Lowden supervised her PhD on the depiction of the soul in the Middle Ages which was completed in 2014.
is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art in the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2011 to 2013 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Courtauld, under the generous guidance of John Lowden.
Jack Hartnell
is Lecturer in Art History at the University of East Anglia’s Department of ArtHistory and World Art Studies. He completed his PhD under the co-supervision of John Lowden in 2014.
Christian Heck
is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medieval Art, Lille University. For many years he was associated with John Lowden in the LLL (Lille-Leuven-London) Seminar for Illuminated Manuscripts.
T.A. (Sandy) Heslop
is Professor of Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, an admirer of John’s contribution to the history of art and a long-time friend.
Deirdre Jackson
is Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York. John Lowden supervised her PhD on Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria (2002), and she worked with him on the British Library’s lead exhibition for 2011–12: Royal Manuscripts: the Genius of Illumination.
Martin Kauffmann
is Head of Early and Rare Collections at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. He completed his PhD at The Courtauld Institute under John Lowden’s supervision.
Beatrice Radden Keefe
is writing a book on the illustrated manuscripts of Terence’s comedies and currently teaches at the University of Zurich. She completed a PhD under John Lowden’s supervision in 2008.
Judith Kogel
is Director of Research at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS) in Paris. She is a specialist of the intellectual history of medieval Jewish communities.
completed her PhD with John in 1999 and recently published a book based on it, The Ormesby Psalter, Artists and Patrons in Medieval East Anglia (Oxford, 2017). She is currently working for the National Gallery and preparing a study of the Met Cloisters’ Unicorn Tapestries.
Emma Luker
took John Lowden’s MA course: Making and Meaning in the Middle Ages (2003). She then worked as an assistant curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum before returning to the Courtauld to take up a Bob McCarthy scholarship for her PhD, supervised by John, entitled The Leiden Psalter (Leiden, University Library MSB.P.L. 76A): Patronage, Production and Ownership (completed 2016).
Julian Luxford
is Professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews. He got to know John while serving as an external examiner at The Courtauld Institute of Art, and has profited by the connection more greatly than his contribution to this volume can show.
Patricia Stirnemann
continues in retirement as a researcher at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire de textes (CNRS) in Paris. She is a long-time friend and admirer of John Lowden and Joanna Cannon.
Mika Takiguchi
is Associate Professor at Meiji University in Tokyo. She completed her PhD under John Lowden’s supervision in 2003.
Rose Walker
holds a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship for her current project. She completed a PhD on Spanish liturgical manuscripts and the management of change under the supervision of John Lowden in 1994.
Rowan Watson
is Senior Curator Emeritus of the National Art Library. He is grateful to John Lowden for many years of productive conversations.
Hanna Wimmer
is a Junior Professor at the Department of Art History at the University of Hamburg. She completed her Masters degree under John Lowden’s supervision in 2004.
Catherine Yvard
is Special Collections Curator at the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. From 2008 to 2015, she managed the Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art.