Erik Kwakkel
Medieval book historian at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. I post images of medieval books.
- By Erik Kwakkel
- Based in Canada
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| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 13 |
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Most recent posts
Medieval selfies and the earliest selfie-stickSelfies are by no means an exclusively modern phenomenon. During the Middle Ages artists would portray themselves, even realistically. The person seen here made two selfies of himself and even …
Eating a bookThese three objects can hardly be called books. Yet they are, although they are not what you’d expect from such objects. These so-called “hornbooks” were used to teach children to read, roughly from …
Snippets in StoneHere are two unusual stone fragments. The object at the top is an “ostrakon”, a piece of stone or pottery filled with text, in this case from Byzantine Egypt, dating from c. 600. …