Seal pelts in manuscripts reveal Viking routes in the Middle Ages. Studies unveil trade routes that previously seemed ...

First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic confirmations of gender. A total of 254 were linked to female scribes, with 204 ...

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

During the Middle Ages, it was common to find monks huddled over their desks, painstakingly copying manuscripts by hand. But women played an important role in this work, too, according to a new ...

Medieval manuscripts can tell us a lot about how our ancestors treated cats. During the Middle Ages, cats had a bad reputation because they were associated with witchcraft and paganism ...

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 Cool Finds A ...

The manuscripts containing representations of these animals also depended on a menagerie of beasts: The covers of these and other volumes were fashioned from the skins of calves, goats ...

The exhibition includes about 50 manuscripts and at least six early ... by Arabic sources Medical understanding in the Middle Ages was underpinned by the idea of the "four humours".

Medieval Institute Publications at Western Michigan University publishes the TEAMS Middle English Texts Series, which produces scholarly texts designed for research and classroom use. Its goal is to ...