Corine Schleif is interested in patronage and reception history. She uses archival sources and critical theory to examine German art, primarily of the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Several of her publications encompass the medium of stained glass. In an Art Bulletin article (1987) she explored the roundels commissioned by the humanist Sixtus Tucher for his private study. In Donatio et Memoria (1990) Schleif studied windows donated by clerics, Konrad Konhofer, Peter Knorr, and Lorenz Tucher for the choir of St. Lorenz in Nuremberg as well as the glassing of the associated St. Anne Chapel
commissioned by the textile merchant Kunz Horn. In 2008 she guest-edited Triangulating our Vision, the inaugural issue of Different Visions, dedicated to Madeline Caviness’s Approach to Medieval Art. https://differentvisions.org/project/issue-one-triangulating-our-vision/ In a special issue of the Journal of Glass Studies (E. Pastan and M. Shepard, eds., 2014), Schleif published a feminist reading of the Crucifixion with Virtues in the cloister of the nunnery at Wienhausen. Together with Volker Schier she undertook a project centering on unknown sources for the windows made by the Hirsvogel workshop and donated for the cloister of the Birgittines in Maihingen. They began with several papers and articles including a contribution to the 2005 Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi conference volume. The monograph Katerina’s Windows appeared in 2009, reviewed in Vidimus https://www.vidimus.org/issues/issue-36/books/ , and together with Anne Simon, they published an edition of the Lemmel letters entitled Pepper for Prayer in 2019, reviewed in Vidimus https://www.vidimus.org/issues/issue-133/reviews/pepper-for-prayer/