Erik Kwakkel

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I am Principal Investigator of 'Turning Over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance', a five-year project funded through the Vidi-scheme of the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research (NWO). The project studies manuscripts produced between 1075 and 1225 across Europe. The four participating researchers are interested in their development in codicological and paleographical sense; as well as in the relationship between their physical appearance on the one hand, and their settings of use and contents on the other. My principal research is in medieval paleography and codicology, but I have spoken at conferences devoted to medieval literature and history, digital humanities and book design. I am currently working ...more

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Medieval selfies and the earliest selfie-stickSelfies are by no...







Medieval selfies and the earliest selfie-stick

Selfies 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 tells us his name: “Rufillus”, Latin for The Redheaded. In the top image he is using a stick to support his arm so as to make a better picture. I like to

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Published on September 22, 2018 08:03
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