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

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in a protective outer layer made from the hairy hides of local land ...

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their ... extending childbirth protection to women of all classes. This book examines the texts and images of nine English birth ...

French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books. One group of books covers didn't look at all like the others.

Essays on Manuscripts and Meaning in Honor of Susanna Fein Poets and Scribes in Late Medieval England: Essays on Manuscripts and Meaning in Honor of Susanna Fein Edited by Michael Johnston, Kathryn ...

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

“It was first thought to be a 14th-century story about Sir Gawain but further examination revealed it to be part of the Old ...

This detailed record of England was called the Domesday Book. It gives historians a great source of information to find out what life in medieval England was really like. Narrator: How successful ...

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