A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding ...

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

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

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 ...

When the former New York Times Paris bureau chief first set out to write a book about the most famous and largest museum in ...

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

A diverse group show on the broadly defined them of middle age(s) marks an auspicious debut for Roundabouts Now, a new ...

While art books are a modern staple of publishing, the process through which these books come about is often left unexplored ...

A fragment of manuscript found in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register was actually a famed King Arthur sequel series. University of Cambridge For centuries, the stories of King Arthur ...

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Plans have been submitted for an archaeological excavation on the site of a proposed relief road after medieval features were found. The documents state that a programme of archaeological ...