For most students, the closest opportunity to directly engage with medieval European psalms, classical Chinese poetry, early Islamic manuscripts or other historical artifacts is observing ...

Medieval records reveal how Cambridge residents may have understood parasites such as roundworm and whipworm. John Stockton, a medical practitioner in Cambridge who died in 1361, left a manuscript to ...

Does the phrase “monks and manuscripts” conjure up an image of medieval scribes huddled over parchment in unheated cells? One Benedictine monk, the Rev. Columba Stewart of St. John’s Abbey and ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...

Kreiner is a professor of history at the University of Georgia specializing in the early Middle Ages, and the author of The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction It’s time for ...

The only surviving original version of one of late medieval England’s most popular works of literature reveals its secrets.

The star T CrB flares up every 80 years. A document from 1217 could help confirm its regularity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

It’s not uncommon for Medieval manuscripts to be bound in animal skins. The hides of deer and goats were used, as were those of boars. But a new analysis of 16 manuscripts held in a French abbey has ...

The British Library has digitized one of the most astounding works of art of the Middle Ages, an illuminated manuscript known as the Sherborne Missal, making it viewable in astonishing detail online.

New digital reconstruction of Abbot John of Wheathampstead Courtesy of Liverpool John Moores University and FaceLab In 2017, excavations at St. Albans Cathedral in southern England uncovered the ...