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November 8 In History 30: Birthdate of Marcus Cocceius Nerva, the Roman Emperor who changed the way in which the special tax on Jews was collected so that would not be the humiliating experience created by his Flavian predecessors. 641: “Jews were...

Detail of the engrossed copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence that is on display at the National Archives, Washington, DC. Each year, more than a million people walk through the cold, dark Rotunda of the National Archives in Washington DC to...

Dr. Erik Kwakkel is of a rare breed: a serious intellectual and scholar who makes his studies interesting and accessible to a popular audience. He's a medieval European book historian and a professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He has...

At Medieval Books, book historian Erik Kwakkel brings the world of medieval manuscripts to life. Erik is a lecturer at Leiden University, the oldest university in the Netherlands, and blogs about this specialized topic in fresh ways. His posts appeal...

artist book: a work of art realized in the form of a book. The definition may sound simple, but the world of artist books can be a bewildering place. From the familiar pairing of images and text, to sculptures created out of paper and complicated bindings...