Just a very quick note here, but I just had to say that this is one of the best replies I've ever had in my journal. Your work sounds absolutely fascinating (and so much like my own area of interest its almost scary. ;)), and I'd love to read more about it!

I'll answer better tomorrow - but for now just thank you for the great comment.

Did you write about the Goslarer Kaiserpfalz in your Master thesis? You said it was about Visual Rhetoric in Wilhelmine Germany?

Yes I did! A rhetorical reading of the murals in fact. I'm currently working on a Ph-D proposal focused on the Barbarossa Imagery, specifically to Barbarossa in Kyffhäuser.