Medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin are actually made of sealskin from northern regions ...

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

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

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has ...

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 ...

She is primarily inspired by other junk journalers such as Martina Calvi (“who started the junk journal renaissance”) and Kalli (“the junk journal queen of Chicago”). Fiorenza Friends Club ...

The story of how tarot evolved from a Renaissance card game to a ubiquitous fortune-telling technique is the focus of “Tarot: Origins and Afterlives,” a new exhibition at London’s Warburg ...

A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of ...

More than 4,000 spectators, including many in Middle Ages garb, stepped into the faux-medieval world of Kryal Castle in Ballarat to watch jousting's answer to the cricket's Ashes rivalry.

She even had JPEGs of the fancy medieval tapestries to prove it, with scenes of death by unicorn disembowelment and all. But they refused to listen. “I grew up around New York in the suburbs and ...