The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University announces the twenty-ninth Otto Gründler Book Prize to be awarded at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-10, 2025). It ...

Pitt-Greensburg professor Amber A. McAlister, an instructor in the history of art and architecture, studies a printed Book of Hours (1556) Thursday at the University of Pittsburgh’s Hillman Library.

In her books " Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe" and "Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built European Mediaeval Monuments", Darke argues that European ...

Forgotten Muslim builders gave medieval Europe its iconic architecture Historian Diana Darke argues in “Islamesque” that Europe’s monuments owe a vast debt to Muslim craftsmen and designers ...

The Clairvaux Abbey in Champagne, France, holds nearly 1,500 medieval books written by scribes of the Cistercian Catholic religious order. ... A Journey Through Medieval European Architecture.

The Harvard Graduate School of Design displayed “Envisioning Cluny: Kenneth Conant and Representations of Medieval Architecture, 1872–2025”— an exhibition tracing the efforts of Kenneth J ...

Researchers were surprised to find some medieval books covered in seal skins 12th century French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books.