More than a millennium after they were carried abroad for safekeeping, a collection of early Irish monastic manuscripts is returning to Ireland for a landmark exhibition at the National Museum in Dubl ...

Seal pelts in manuscripts reveal Viking routes in the Middle Ages. Studies unveil trade routes that previously seemed ...

Archaeologists were astonished to uncover hundreds of skeletons while excavating the grounds of a British university, which once hosted a medieval church demolished in the 1650s.

French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books. One group of books covers didn't look at all like the others. Protein fingerprint and DNA analysis revealed them to be not local cows or ...

A University of Houston-Victoria history faculty member has received her second fellowship in the past few years and will have the opportunity to finish a research project in California.

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

Medieval manuscripts are rich sources of knowledge about the past — and not all of the information is written on their pages. Élodie Lévêque at Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris and her ...

“The Middle Ages” comprises works located between points in time, whether the bounds of the literal Middle Ages, or middle age in an individual sense, or a moment of societal shift from one ...

In the Middle Ages, “white” did not mean the pure white of today ... The extensive use of these skins does not appear to follow a hierarchical criterion: manuscripts of varying content and value ...

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

The manuscripts containing representations of these animals also depended on a menagerie of beasts: The covers of these and other volumes were fashioned from the skins of calves, goats ...

A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes and editors selected and rearranged parts of texts—a practice known as ...