Erika Harlitz-Kern holds a doctorate from a Swedish university and can't get enough of history, books, and music. Her earliest memories involve a comic book and a Dutch troubadour. She has travelled South Asia on a shoestring, although nowadays she spends most of her vacations in the Mississippi Delta. Lives with her husband in South Florida, because sooner or later they would've ended up there anyway. Blog: The Boomerang Twitter: EH_Kern
Ten things you need to know about the most accomplished medieval manuscript in the Portuguese style of micrography and illuminations.
Get to know a bit about The Golden Haggadah.
Medieval Europe was a racially and culturally diverse place, and fantasy based on the period should reflect that.
Wesley Chu's Tao series is being developed for television.
Ten things you need to know about the Luttrell Psalter and its surreal images.
Exeter Book, the oldest book of English literature, contains religious poetry and smutty riddles.
Ten bits of trivia about the Gutenberg Bible.
Memorable moments with authors as guests on the third season of the late night talkshow Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC.
Book recommendations on the Eurovision Song Contest as an arena for nationalism, democracy, freedom of speech, and LGBTQ equality.
