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.

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.

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

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

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

A recent study by Dr. Alar Läänelaid and his colleagues has provided new insights into the creation of the oldest dated ...

Legend has it, as recounted by the English Benedictine monk Matthew of Paris, that the energetic Pope Innocent IV died of a ...

There are many famous mysteries from the Middle Ages that have kept us guessing. Such as the fate of King Edward II and the princes in the Tower, or the meaning of the Voynich Manuscript. Today we ...

First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

The outer right cover, photographed in standard conditions as seen by the naked eye, shows the wear and tear sustained over the centuries, including a band of faded text around the middle, crumples ...

In this course, the art of the later Middle Ages from approximately 1300 to the 1530s will ... The discussions concern art works of various media, with some extra attention given to manuscripts, ...