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

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

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

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