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

It’s not uncommon for Medieval manuscripts to be bound in animal skins. The hides of deer and goats were used, as were those of boars. But a new analysis of 16 manuscripts held in a French abbey ...

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

A rare medieval illuminated manuscript uncovered in the archive of a York convent is going on display for the very first time ...

This richly illuminated book contains ... up until the late 19th century. Medieval cures frequently blurred the line between magic and medicine. Many manuscripts contain charms and rituals ...

A show at the Morgan Library & Museum centers on a popular travel compendium of the medieval era, filled with exaggerations and bizarre inventions, that shaped how people viewed the world beyond their ...

Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound volume from the 1300s containing the earliest versions of the masterly medieval poem "Pearl ...

A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, with a probable total ...

Listening. Masculinity. Medieval illuminated manuscripts are our key to European art for hundreds of years but also to political and social movements. Christopher de Hamel, keeper of possibly the ...

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 Arma Christi is the centrepiece of a new exhibition at the Bar Convent Living Heritage Centre in York A rare medieval illuminated manuscript uncovered in the archive of a York convent is going ...

Emma Donoghue on her new novel inspired by the 19th century phenomenon of fasting girls plus how to shake hands with Illuminated Manuscripts with Christopher de Hamel Show more Medieval ...