Between 2019 and 2022, I also worked on a project called Books of Hours as Transformative Works. If you’re not familiar with the term “transformative work,” it comes out of fandom studies—think of fan fiction or fan art—where people respond emotionally and creatively to something they love. I wanted to apply this framework to Books of Hours, which are perfect for this kind of interpretation. People in the Middle Ages and Renaissance loved their Books of Hours, and you can see that in how they personalized and handled them. Kathryn Rudy has written extensively about this, showing how people left physical marks—kissing, touching, and so on.
Editors’ Choice: A Franken-Book-of-Hours: From Physical to Digital and Back Again – Dot Porter Digital
