It’s not a large exhibition, but it’s a versatile one, covering medieval bookmaking technology and science, the social lives ...

Researchers investigated 12th- and 13th-century manuscripts from an abbey in ... These marine mammals were rarely depicted in medieval art or coats of arms, and there was no French word for ...

The extensive use of these skins does not appear to follow a hierarchical criterion: manuscripts of varying content and value ... they of the networks that brought them from distant lands? Medieval ...

By Jack Tamisiea Medieval scribes filled volumes called bestiaries with illustrations and descriptions of fantastic creatures. The manuscripts containing representations of these animals also ...

A rare medieval illuminated manuscript uncovered in the archive of a York convent is going on display for the very first time. The 15th-century Arma Christi was found in a shoebox filled with ...

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Darkly funny, unsettling ... at Cambridge University Library explores medicine in the medieval era. Dozens of unique medical manuscripts, recipes, cures and guides to healthy living from the ...

At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property ...

Some 750 years ago, a medieval scribe copied stories of a knight and a wizard into a manuscript. The knight was Sir Gawain and the wizard was Merlin, two mythical characters of Arthurian legend ...

In an increasingly polarised world, the arts and humanities play a key role in sustaining democracy. They foster critical thinking, open dialogue, emotional intelligence and understanding across ...

An MIT professor discovered that the Pearl Manuscript from the 1300s has more to it than just four unconnected medieval poems ... piece of visual and textural art than anyone had ever seen ...

Medieval manuscripts detailing unusual treatments – including an infertility cure made from weasels’ testicles – will feature in a new exhibition at Cambridge University Library. Curious ...