Sketching was my go-to escape activity, and has been throughout my life. By second grade, I was drawing scenes from The Rat Patrol, with jeeps catching air over sand dunes, ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may ... on the wall paintings is in capital letters, and the painters subdued their ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Though past research has turned up a handful of medieval manuscripts penned by women ... a human scribe had to sit down and copy the text, letter by letter. For years, historians have believed ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A bibliometric analysis of medieval manuscript colophons reveals that at least 1.1% of manuscripts from 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, totaling ...

A 15th Century manuscript containing the unusual treatment features in a new exhibition detailing the bizarre cures that were used for all manner of ills in the medieval period. The 'cure' for ...

Medieval manuscripts ... the most beautiful manuscripts on display belonged to Elizabeth of York, Queen of England, wife of Henry VII and mother of Henry VIII. This richly illuminated book ...