Over the centuries, works of medieval literature have become lost. Today, roughly 68 percent of chivalric and heroic works ...

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.

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 manuscript was kept in a monastery for several hundred years, but the village of Kells was pillaged by Vikings throughout the Middle Ages. The manuscript became a prize among thieves.

The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts ...

A lighthearted round-up of this week’s Cambridge news, featuring potholes and ‘pointless’ marches ...