For centuries, scholars and art historians have speculated about the existence of a fifth panel in Hexham Abbey's medieval ...

A wooden panel, found in Hexham Abbey after bring lost for more than 30 years, could be the missing piece in a series of medieval panel ...

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

A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.

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

News from Northumbria University that a medieval panel, discovered in the triforium in Hexham Abbey back in 2017, has been ...

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in ...

Funding is available for free school trips to Strata Florida. The Strata Florida Trust invites schools to visit them for the ...

A decade-long excavation project uncovered around 120,000 artifacts at a medieval monastery, a book has revealed. Rushen Abbey was founded as a Cistercian monastery in A.D. 1134 on the Isle of Man ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some manuscripts, rather than skins from the local boars and deer ...

An old stone church in Coleraine had seen better days when a Minnesota couple decided to renovate and transform it into a ...