These opening letters for one of the psalms are a classic illustration of medieval illumination, relying on vibrant colors, geometric patterns, and illustrated scenes (image courtesy the British ...

A super old manuscript in a Shropshire school library had been catalogued and shelved for generations. Only recently did ...

Yearning princesses locked away in castles, heroic knights, hawkish Vikings — fragments of medieval European stories have permeated nearly every aspect of contemporary culture, from Taylor Swift songs ...

Usually, when people hear the term “illuminated manuscript,” they think of enormous, leather-bound books, produced painstakingly by the hands of medieval European monks, and filled to the brim with ...

Often described as the “world’s most mysterious manuscript”, the Voynich Manuscript is written in an unknown script and filled with puzzling illustrations—unusual plants, constellations, bathing women ...

“Dear Mrs Livingstone,” the e-mail began. “Unfortunately you are wrong by writing in your article that the Voynich manuscript isn’t cracked. I cracked the code in 2007.” Since writing about 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 ...

New research finds that, while the Knights of the Round Table have won global fame, most medieval heroic or chivalric stories in English have been lost. Meanwhile, more than three quarters of medieval ...

Those who study human culture must grapple with what amounts to an incomplete data set, since researchers are limited to poring over the books, manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and other artifacts ...