➡️ searching for the signature in the catalogue
➡️ shifting shelves and scanning pages
➡️ staying hydrated (yes, even in rain or a heatwave!)
➡️ plenty of marginal notes, underlining, and reflection
➡️ close-up study of illuminated manuscripts
🔎 Barbora Uchytilová spent several days in Vienna’s libraries researching visual sources on depictions of medieval queens.
📚 From early-morning planning by signature list to late-night reflection over a notebook, a research day is filled with focused work, feverish searches, small discoveries, and subtle details that can fundamentally reshape our view of history.
