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 ...

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 ...

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.

Now, she’s the author of a book with a tongue-in-cheek guide to living like it’s 999 AD — or thereabouts — called “Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Love, Laugh (and Die) in Dark Times.” ...

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.

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.

The property includes two main buildings that were both meticulously designed to replicate medieval architecture. The "Trivium" is the main house and features four bedrooms, six bathrooms, a guest ...

MONTICELLO — A private gravel road, guarded by giant trees in the middle of what feels like nowhere, leads to a modern, medieval castle-inspired home that's now on the market. A storm-cloud ...

As early as 1964, the British architectural historian Ian Nairn identified the fatal flaws in modern architecture, saying that it “is hamstrung by self-consciousness and strangled by ...

The first section of the book opens with four articles on the medieval history and architecture of the priory by Christine Merie Fox (lecturer in the history of medicine at Utrecht University) and ...