First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...
Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...
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Medieval Female Scribes Were Far More Common Than Previously Thought. At Least 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts Were Copied by WomenFor centuries, the image of a monk hunched over a desk, painstakingly copying manuscripts by candlelight, has dominated our perception of scholarship in the Middle Ages. But what about the women? A ...
The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts ...
Genealogical and genetic ancestors aren’t the same thing. A DNA match − or a lack of one − may not tell you what you imagine ...
Bahr undertook a complete re-examination of the tome, complete with spectroscopic analysis and mathematical investigation, to ...
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This hospital in Cambridge offered “medieval benefits” but few got inLife in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated ...
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This Medieval Bear in Romania Was Victim of Human Lead PollutionAt the time, medieval forges belched smoke from the nearby Banat mountains ... This story originally appeared on ZME Science. Want to get smarter every day? Subscribe to our newsletter and stay ahead ...
A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...
The most comprehensive study of medieval warhorses ever undertaken will be released in the form of a radical new book this ...
The metal suits worn by knights during the Middle Ages were originally designed to protect against weapons such as swords. But could medieval armor also stop bullets?
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