The Voynich Manuscript is a mystery that continues to baffle the most esteemed philologists. Voynich Manuscript is a ...

About 10 years ago, several folios of the mysterious Voynich manuscript were scanned using multispectral imaging. Lisa Fagin ...

A 15th Century manuscript offers the "rarest glimpse" into medieval live comedy performances, according to a Cambridge University academic. Dr James Wade said the raucous texts mocked kings ...

"The survival rate of medieval Scottish manuscript volumes is generally low. "For example, only 1% of religious manuscripts of Roman Catholic use - many of which were systematically destroyed ...

“The manuscripts and the jewels are both venerating narratives which are of great importance," says Joy BC, on the interplay between her own work and the Medieval artworks. "They also both use ...

In cases of rape and sexual violence, women had few other avenues for seeking justice. Tucked within the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Bavarian State Library in Munich, rare medieval ...

Prestige, authority and power: what is the significance of these three terms for the study of medieval manuscripts and texts? This is the question that the authors of the essays in this volume, ...

Merlin was said to have been a loyal advisor to King Arthur amid the Dark Ages before being imprisoned, killed and buried along the river Tweed, according to Vita Merlini Sylvestris (the Life of ...

Laura Venditti’s delightful needle-felted creations are inspired by the oddly proportioned creatures that haunt illuminated ...

Far from a “dark age,” the medieval era was a time of explosive academic inquiry, and scholars of both science and religion ...

Illuminated sheep have appeared at Carlisle Castle as part of a touring sculpture exhibition. The sculptures, created by ...

“For example, the Getty’s Lumen show … explores the nature of light. Yes, you're looking at things like scientific ...