Researchers investigated 12th- and 13th-century manuscripts from an abbey in France that were clad in furry outer covers. Matthew Collins In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in a ...

The bibliophiles in Christopher de Hamel’s lavishly illustrated book ensured the survival of medieval texts over centuries. By Bruce Holsinger Bruce Holsinger teaches at the University of Virginia and ...

To "doodle" means to draw or scrawl aimlessly, and the history of the word goes back to the early 20th century. Scribbling haphazard words, squiggly lines and mini-drawings, however, is a much older ...

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 ...

So last week, a group of researchers who were studying a set of medieval books published their findings. They had been looking into the material used to make the books' covers. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST ...

Science is helping researchers judge books by their covers — and revealing surprising beneficiaries of medieval trading routes in the process. Dozens of rare, fur-covered volumes from 12th and 13th ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard Rolle (depicted in this medieval illustration c. 1400) was a famous hermit and Christian mystic. Most people today may not ...

Tuomas Heikkilä, Åslaug Ommundsen, Lars Boje Mortensen and Matthew Collins have won an ERC Synergy Grant to explore medieval book culture in the CODICUM project. The project will investigate ...

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 ...

Karl Marx -- or the filmmaker Luis Buñuel -- would have found just as much to scoff at in 15th- and 16th-century Burgundy as in the modern world. It was then that, here as in other parts of Europe, ...