In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in a protective outer layer made from the hairy hides of local land ...

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

This book makes an important contribution to scholarship in the ... Fliegel, the former Robert Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). Authors of these essays, all ...

The most comprehensive study of medieval warhorses ever undertaken will be released in the form of a radical new book this week.

This volume examines power and the paratext in medieval books from intellectual disciplines such as history of the book, law, science, music, medicine, literature, art, and philosophy. Polemic and ...