Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

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

Roughly 700 years ago, a French-language sequel to the legend of King Arthur known as the Suite Vulgate du Merlin became a ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.

The "romance" of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated codex on his life and was the most widely-read romance in the ...

Every book was a laborious project during the Middle Ages. And according to a first ... Experts estimate medieval scribes produced over 10 million manuscripts between 400-1500 CE, each one ...

We also don’t know if the catalogues entries represent a good random sample of the total number of manuscripts produced in the Middle Ages. For this reason we might consider 1.1 percent to be a ...

The silver Kiddush cup, an object used to sanctify the Shabbat and Jewish holidays, evidences medieval Jewish communities in ...

The study found a strong trade network between Greenland Norse and French abbeys, linking Cistercians to broader economies, ...

During the Middle Ages, it was common to find monks huddled over their desks, painstakingly copying manuscripts by hand. But women played an important role in this work, too, according to a new ...