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

First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.

Over the centuries, works of medieval literature have become lost. Today, roughly 68 percent of chivalric and heroic works ...

Dozens of unique, centuries-old manuscripts have gone on display, showcasing medieval ideas of how to cure disease and live a healthy life. The cures include the use of crushed weasel testicles to ...

We also don’t know if the catalogues entries represent a good random sample of the total number of manuscripts produced in the Middle Ages. For this reason we might consider 1.1 percent to be a ...

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 ...

The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts detailing treatments ranging from the commonplace to the truly peculiar, ...

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 April 10 ...