This fall, six Princeton undergraduate students in the course “Arts of the Medieval Book” are exploring the technology and function of books through a historical perspective. Working firsthand with ...

MEDIEVAL scribes filled vo­lumes called bestiaries with illustrations and descriptions of fantastic creatures. The manuscripts containing representations of these animals also depended on a menagerie ...

Quatrilobed Plaque, ca. 1300-1310, probably by Guillaume Julien (French), Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, gift of William Mathewson Milliken, ...

The reason so many knights did battle with snails in the margins of medieval manuscripts remains a mystery (Credit: The British Library) The pages of medieval books are stalked by a ferocious monster: ...

For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant. This time period is popularly referred to as the “Dark Ages,” which erroneously suggests that it was unenlightened by science or ...

With the third year of the pandemic looming, David Moscrop went searching desperately for a hobby – a search that ended when he started looking at his bookshelves in a new way. This launches a new ...

Otto F. Ege, an Ohio-based scholar and book dealer, made a controversial practice of dismantling medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and selling the individual leaves for profit during the first half ...

Oftentimes, we are preoccupied with the contents of a book rather than the book itself. The phrase, “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is preached as a metaphorical reminder not to be quick to judge ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A medieval art historian has won Western Michigan University's Otto Gründler Book Prize for her book on the study of absences, “lacunae” and gaps in manuscripts from the Middle Ages ...

Today we have Kindles to save us from lugging heavy books around, but how did avid readers cope back in the 16th century? Some revealing new images of an antique book that can be read six different ...

A medieval book that warns children against picking their noses, burping in public or eating all the cheese has been digitised by the British Library. The Lytille Childrenes Lytil Boke (The Little ...