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An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...
Children at Pembridge CE Primary School near Leominster were transported back to medieval times with a recent school visit.
In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in a protective outer layer made from the hairy hides of local land ...
The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.
The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...
The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...
From listening to classical music to decorating cookies, here are 15 things to do in Greater Lafayette this year.
The International Armenian Literary Alliance appointed two new members, Tamar Marie Boyadjian and Armen Davoudian, to its ...
A yearly tradition since 1977, the medieval fair in Norman opens Friday in Reaves Park to a full weekend, transporting fairgoers back to the year 1360. The cast of characters shifts from year-to-year, ...
In the Middle Ages, people often slept in box beds. These fully enclosed beds were enclosed inside of a wooden box with a ...
Archaeologists are set to begin an underwater excavation of a rare medieval crannog in Loch Achilty later this year. The excavation will be funded by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the ...