Color plates scanned from the Taschen Facsimile of Maximilian I's Theuerdank, 1517. Written in the style of a medieval epic poem, Theuerdank is a fanciful and allegorical autobiography of Emperor Maximilian I. Chapters are loosely based on events from the Emperor's life and tell the story of his alter ego "Theuerdank" and the various perils he overcomes on his journey to marry "Erenreich", Maximilian's fictional character for Mary of Burgundy. The descriptions I give for each chapter are paraphrased from Stephen Fussel's "Emperor Maximilian and the Media of His Day, The Theuerdank of 1517, a Cultural-Historical Introduction".