While most kids his age are struggling to write book reports and essays, young Blake Varnadoe was completing and publishing ...

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A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

no big book-signing tour. The real world was now intruding horrifically.

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...