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One 15th Century manuscript compiled by a Carmelite friar, and translated from Latin, included a suggested infertility cure ...
Less than 40 copies of the Arthurian story Suite Vulgate du Merlin are known to exist. One was just found, binding together ...
The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.
Capturing an early 1970s charged with political unrest, anti-war sentiment and media saturation, the new documentary One to One: John & Yoko is a revealing exploration of John Lennon’s post-Beatles ...
According to medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury ... using the threat of violence to extract silver from England." This illuminated manuscript, circa A.D. 1130 depicts Viking ships attacking ...
Europe is home to some of the world's oldest libraries, most of which are hidden in quaint small towns. These libraries offer ...
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL––According to a news release issued by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, an international […] ...
offering us a rare and very real glimpse into the daily lives and personalities of early medieval Irish monks.” Taking manuscripts to the continent was a response to the Viking threat and also ...