Believed to be the site where Jesus and his disciples had the Last Supper just before his crucifixion, the Cenacle in ...

Twist is a self-consciously eloquent book in which language is treasured like the glorious illustrations of some medieval manuscript, but it’s also a compelling yarn where everything is turned ...

Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval scribes filled volumes called bestiaries with illustrations and descriptions of fantastic creatures. The manuscripts ...

The images, which are varied in style and can be found in editions dating back to medieval and early-modern Germany ... (photo credit: JTA ILLUSTRATION) (JTA) — The Passover Haggadah is one of the few ...

But how trustworthy were the alluring illustrations and evocative descriptions that filled guidebooks past to places far removed and little known?

The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...

The pope appeared to push back against a statement JD Vance made regarding "ordered love," a medieval Catholic concept.

Medieval women were encouraged to use pills made from weasel’s testicles to help them conceive. The infertility cure was discovered in a 15th-century manuscript compiled by a Carmelite friar ...

A particularly striking manuscript contains illustrations of ‘Vein Man’ and ‘Zodiac Man’, illuminating how medicine and astrology were entwined in medieval times. One diagram showed how ...