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

At the end of the ninth century, a group of Roman Catholic monks in France struck out on their own. Dissatisfied with the rules of the Benedictine abbey they called home, they created the Cistercian ...

Medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin are actually made of sealskin from northern regions ...