In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in the hairy hides of animals like deer or boar to act […] ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prior research has shown that most medieval books were made in European abbeys ... The team then studied an additional 13 ...

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

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word ...

Somerset is a rural county in southwest England, bounded to the north and ... s geography because it is a crucial part of this book. On the morning of January 29, 1607, a catastrophic and ...

The most comprehensive study of medieval warhorses ... stud network of the Kings of England and how they traded warhorses like "supercar status symbols," the book breaks new ground in placing ...