Erik Kwakkel

Erik Kwakkel (born 28 May 1970, Meppel) is a Dutch scholar who specializes in medieval manuscripts, paleography, and codicology. An assistant professor at Leiden University (his alma mater) in the Netherlands, he has taught at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria in Canada. Kwakkel's work on medieval doodles caught international attention in 2014.[1][2] While teaching a class at Leiden University, his class found notes, letters and receipts from an unidentified court in the Rhine region - hidden inside the binding of a book printed in 1577.[3] He is the author, with Rosamond McKitterick and Rodney Thomson, of Turning Over a New Leaf: Change and Development in the Medieval Book (Leiden UP, 2012)[4] and, with Stephen Partridge, of Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice (Toronto UP, 2012).[5]

References

  1. Usborne, Simon (5 October 2014). "Medieval doodles prove that it's goode to scribble in ye margins". The Independent. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  2. Simons, Jake Wallis (3 November 2014). "700-year-old doodles by medieval scribes". CNN. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  3. Kwakkel, Erik (2013-05-03). "A Hidden Medieval Archive Surfaces". medievalbooks. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
  4. Garver, Valerie L; Phelan, Owen M (2014). Rome and Religion in the Medieval World: Studies in Honor of Thomas F.X. Noble. Ashgate. p. 313. ISBN 9781472421142. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  5. Noonan, Sarah (2013). "Rev. of Kwakkel and Partridge, Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice". Review of English Studies. ns 64 (266): 695–97.

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