Biting, Kissing and the Treatment of Feet

Do you bite? Do you kiss? Do you treat feet? Has it occurred to you more than once that the twelfth century was, by some reckoning, long? If you answer yes to any of those questions, you are not alone. Read this study, if you will:

“Biting, Kissing and the Treatment of Feet: The Transitional Script of the Long Twelfth Century,” Erik Kwakkel, in Turning Over a New Leaf: Change and Development in the Medieval Book, 2012, pp. 79-124.