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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

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 ...