Erik Kwakkel

Erik Kwakkel (born 28 May 1970, Meppel) is a Dutch scholar who specializes in medieval manuscripts, paleography, and codicology. He is a member of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine and, from 2012 through 2017, was a member of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).[1]

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Erik Kwakkel
Born
Frederik Kwakkel

(1970-05-28)28 May 1970
Meppel, Netherlands
OccupationPalaeographer
Academic background
Alma materLeiden University
Doctoral advisorJ. P. Gumbert
Academic work
DisciplinePalaeography, codicology
InstitutionsLeiden University, University of Victoria, University of British Columbia

Following completion of his M.A. in Middle Dutch Literature and Ph.D. in Manuscript Studies at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, Kwakkel worked at numerous international research institutions, including the University of British Columbia (2003–2005) and the University of Victoria in Canada.[2] Returning to the Netherlands in 2010, he became a professor at his alma mater where, in December 2016, he was appointed Scaliger Chair, succeeding Prof. Harm Beukers, who held the position from 2007. The holder of the Chair, affiliated with the Scaliger Institute at Leiden University Libraries as well as with the Faculty of Humanities, is tasked with "promot[ing] teaching and research relating to the Special Collections held by the University library" through outreach activities directed towards academic and non-academic audiences.[1] Kwakkel returned to the University of British Columbia in 2018 after accepting an appointment at the latter institution's iSchool (effective 1 August 2018).[2]

From 2010 through 2015, Kwakkel directed the nationally funded project "Turning Over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance" which examined the development of manuscripts "as … physical object[s] during the Twelfth Century Renaissance".[2][3] In 2014, his work on medieval doodles caught international attention.[4][5] A year previously, 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.[6]

Kwakkel has delivered public lectures at numerous venues throughout Europe and North America including the 2014 Triennial E. A. Lowe Lecture in Paleography at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he spoke on "The Birth of Gothic Script",[7][8] and, in February 2020, a Darwin College Lecture[9] on “The Enigmatic Premodern Book”.[10] He is the author of numerous books and articles for both scholarly and lay audiences.

Selected publications
Books as author
Books as editor
Book chapters and articles
  • "Decoding the Material Book: Cultural Residue in Medieval Manuscripts". The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches, ed. Michael Van Dussen and Michael Johnson (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
  • "Biting, Kissing and the Treatment of Feet: The Transitional Script of the Long Twelfth Century". Turning Over a New Leaf: Change and Development in the Medieval Book, ed. Erik Kwakkel, Rosamond McKitterick, and Rodney Thomson (Leiden University Press, 2012), 78–126.
  • "Commercial Organisation and Economic Innovation". The Production of Books in England, 1350–1530, ed. Alexandra Gillespie and Daniel Wakelin (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 173–191.
  • "A New Type of Book for a New Type of Reader: The Emergence of Paper in Vernacular Book Production". The History of the Book in the West: 400–1455, ed. Jane Roberts and Pamela Robinson (Ashgate, 2010), 409–438.
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References
  1. "Erik Kwakkel Appointed Scaliger Professor". Leiden University. 19 Dec 2016. Retrieved 23 Dec 2016.
  2. "Dr. Erik Kwakkel joins UBC iSchool". iSchool (Library, Archival, and Information Studies). May 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  3. "Turning Over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance". Leiden University. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  4. Usborne, Simon (5 Oct 2014). "Medieval doodles prove that it's goode to scribble in ye margins". The Independent. Retrieved 9 Dec 2014.
  5. Simons, Jake Wallis (3 Nov 2014). "700-year-old doodles by medieval scribes". CNN. Retrieved 9 Dec 2014.
  6. Kwakkel, Erik (3 May 2013). "A Hidden Medieval Archive Surfaces". medievalbooks. Retrieved 19 Aug 2016.
  7. "Special Lectures". Corpus Christi College. 2016. Retrieved 23 Dec 2016.
  8. "Erik Kwakkel to Hold the 2014 E. A. Lowe Lectures in Corpus Christi College, Oxford". Leiden University. 17 Jan 2014. Retrieved 23 Dec 2016.
  9. "Darwin College Lecture Series". Darwin College Cambridge. 2020. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 7 Jan 2020.
  10. "The Enigmatic Premodern Book". Darwin College Cambridge. 2020. Archived from the original on 8 January 2020. Retrieved 7 Jan 2020.
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