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

Chanel’s signature monochrome palette — the brand’s emblematic black and white — also seems to echo the visual simplicity of ...

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word ...

A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...

Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new study is hoping to reassert her place in history.

Experts estimate medieval scribes produced over 10 million ... The authors noted that while previous studies examined gender roles in monastic scriptoria, none attempted to calculate how many ...

However, medieval readers did not understand or perceive ... At a time when many of the monastic readers and copyists of the story were living out their whole lives enclosed in an institution ...

Round towers were designed primarily as bell-towers and were attached to some of the most prestigious churches in Ireland during the 11th and 12th centuries. In thickly forested and remote landscapes ...