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Dr Margit Thofner

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Profile summary

  • Central Academic Staff
  • Senior Lecturer
  • Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
  • School of Arts & Humanities
  • Art History
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Professional biography

Margit took her BA and MA in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and her DPhil at the University of Sussex. She has taught at Sussex, at St Andrews University, at Bristol University and at the University of East Anglia before she joined the Open University.

Research interests

Margit's research interests are mainly focused on the early modern period in the Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia and the British Isles. They include painting, print, architecture, sculpture and range across the histories of religion, politics, gender, court culture, public rituals, urban spaces and musical culture.

Teaching interests

Margit's teaching interests include any work of art produced anywhere in the world during the early modern period. She is also keen to develop her understanding of the histories of colonialism and collecting, especially in relation to Inuit communities in Greenland and North America.

Publications

Chalk and Cheese (2022-04)
Thøfner, Margit
Art History, 45(2) (pp. 404-410)

[Book Review] Northern European reformations. Transnational perspectives. Edited by James E. Kelly, Henning Laugerud and Salvador Ryan. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. (2021-10)
Thøfner, Margit
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 72(4) (pp. 885-888)

Of Elephants and Harmony: Memory, Knowledge and Pleasure in the Joyous Entry of Albert of Austria and Isabella of Spain into Antwerp (2021-01)
Thøfner, Margit
Cheiron - materiali e strumenti di aggiornamento storiografico, Article 2(1) (pp. 39-67)

Framing the Enemy: Gaspard Bouttats’s Collage Portraits for Prudencio de Sandoval’s Historia de la vida y hechos del Emperador Carlos V in the Whitworth Collection (2020-09-01)
Thøfner, Margit
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 96(2) (pp. 67-93)

On Magic, Time and Exchange: The Arts of Sophia of Mecklenburg-Güstrow and Anna of Denmark-Norway (2020)
Thøfner, Margit
Art History, 43(2) (pp. 384-411)

Tasting God’s Wisdom: Music and Art in the Early Modern Lutheran Church (2023-10-05)
Thøfner, Margit
In: Mahler Kraaz, Sarah and De Mille, Charlotte eds. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art (pp. 9-24)
ISBN : 9781501377730 | Publisher : Bloomsbury

Why Giants? (2022-10)
Thøfner, Margit
In: Verberckmoes, Johan ed. Zwierige Reuzen in de 18e eeuw en de Lierse ommegang van 1722 (pp. 18-35)
Publisher : Gezellen van 't Groot Volk | Published : Lier

‘Exulting and Adorning it in Exuberant Strains’: Music, Figuration and Ornamentation in Abel Schrøder’s altarpiece of 1667 (Skt Morten, Næstved, Denmark). (2020-10-29)
Thøfner, Margit
In: Hart, Imogen and Jones, Claire eds. Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe, Seventeenth Century to Contemporary. Material Culture of Art and Design (pp. 19-46)
ISBN : 9781501341250 | Publisher : Bloomsbury Visual Arts | Published : London