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

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

Roughly 700 years ago, a French-language sequel to the legend of King Arthur known as the Suite Vulgate du Merlin became a ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.

The silver Kiddush cup, an object used to sanctify the Shabbat and Jewish holidays, evidences medieval Jewish communities in ...

Why medieval couples thought weasel testicles could cure infertility - It wasn’t merely superstition or ‘blind ...

We also don’t know if the catalogues entries represent a good random sample of the total number of manuscripts produced in the Middle Ages. For this reason we might consider 1.1 percent to be a ...

Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval times—classical texts, scriptures, and other documents of interest to the monks. But it turns out that people recycled the ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) literature professor Arthur Bahr experienced one of the most memorable moments of his academic career. At the British Library, he had the privilege of ...

A lighthearted round-up of this week’s Cambridge news, featuring potholes and ‘pointless’ marches ...