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Erik Kwakkel blogging about medieval manuscripts

History

’15’20’25
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70 from 11 Feb 2012 to 26 Nov 2024
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now and then
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2024 2

  1. Beastly beginnings
  2. Perfect imperfection

2022 1

  1. Medieval Manuscript Fragments in the Classroom

2019 2

  1. Breaking Bad: The Incomplete History of the St Albans Bible
  2. The Oldest Surviving Printed Advertisement in English (London, 1477)

2018 4

  1. Medieval Book Carousels
  2. Doodles in Medieval Manuscripts
  3. Me, Myself, and I: The Story of Two Medieval Selfies
  4. The Architecture of the Medieval Page

2016 2

  1. The Secrets of Medieval Fonts
  2. Dirty Old Books

2015 19

  1. X-Rays Expose a Hidden Medieval Library
  2. “To conserve or not to conserve, that is the question”
  3. Judging a Book by its Cover
  4. The Incredible Expandable Book
  5. Medieval Posters
  6. Chain, Chest, Curse: Combating Book Theft in Medieval Times
  7. Medieval Letter-People
  8. Half Full, Half Empty: The Peculiar Medieval Page
  9. Medieval Bargain Books
  10. Rare Medieval Name Tags
  11. Texting in Medieval Times
  12. Book on a Stick
  13. Dirty Medieval Books
  14. Helping Hands on the Medieval Page
  15. Cracking Codes in Medieval Books
  16. Box It, Bag It, Wrap It: Medieval Books on the Go
  17. Medieval Speech Bubbles
  18. Medieval Apps
  19. Books on a Diet

2014 22

  1. Mary Had a Little Book
  2. The Medieval Origins of the Modern Footnote
  3. Medieval Notepads
  4. Medieval Spam: The Oldest Advertisements for Books
  5. Location, Location: GPS in the Medieval Library
  6. Facebook Before Facebook: Tagging in Antiquity
  7. Drawing with Words
  8. Dressing Up: Medieval Books Wearing Leather
  9. Destroying Medieval Books – And Why That’s Useful
  10. The Skinny on Bad Parchment
  11. Meet the Medieval Manuscript
  12. Medieval Desktops
  13. Hugging a Medieval Book
  14. Smart Medieval Bookmarks
  15. Medieval Selfies
  16. Medieval Super Models
  17. Getting Personal in the Margin
  18. Strange Medieval Books
  19. The First Page of the Medieval Book
  20. The Last Page of the Medieval Book
  21. The Beauty of the Injured Book
  22. My Week of Lecturing in Oxford

2013 8

  1. What is the Oldest Book in the World?
  2. Where Are the Scriptoria?
  3. Stamp of Approval: A Paper Snippet and the Spanish Inquisition
  4. Voices on the Medieval Page (1): The Reader
  5. A Hidden Medieval Archive Surfaces
  6. Making Books for Profit in Medieval Times
  7. The Proud Reader: Showing Off the Medieval Book
  8. My First Year on Twitter: How I Became @erik_kwakkel

2012 10

  1. The Traveling Book: Medieval Texts on the Move
  2. “Book to Reader, Come in Reader!” The Manuscript Speaks, But Are You Listening?
  3. Life Beyond the Grave: The Leiden Apocalypse Fragments
  4. A Window Display of 140 Characters: Why and How Twitter Works for Me as an Academic
  5. Secrets of the Heart: Exploring the Dark Side of the Manuscript
  6. New Evidence of Note-Taking in the Medieval Classroom
  7. First They Kiss and Then They Bite: How Letters in Love Make History
  8. Hidden Treasure, or How Destruction Creates Beautiful Things
  9. Common but not Ordinary: The Leiden Dioscorides Examined
  10. Strangers at a Party