Jana Lammerding – History of the Book

A close-up photo depicting a page from the MS Douce 2016: "The discoverie of witchcraft" by Reginald Scot, published in 1584. The photo shows the initial oversized decorative capital letter "I" as printed on the first page of an introduction to the book, addressing Sir Roger Manwood.

Magical Encounters

by Jana Christin Lammerding (Vienna, Research Intern Oxford Hilary Term 2026) In Oxford, witches are everywhere. They peek out from the windows of tourist shops on Broad Street, screen-printed onto tote bags and dangling from keychains. They fly across the facades of buildings that doubled as Gothic film sets, trailing the memory of film crews …

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Hamnet’s Intertextuality, or the Art of Book Adaptation

Written by Jana Christin Lammerding Few conventions in filmmaking spark as much debate as adapting books for the big (or small) screen. With their potential to breathe new life into a story and their risk to dilute the original work, book-to-film adaptations are indeed a potentially rewarding but delicate undertaking in the creative business. Yet …