This is, however, at least partly, a misleading picture, rooted in our prejudice about how we picture the way early medieval literacy and book culture functioned. Fortunately, we have glimpses of ...

Highlights in these collections include a teaching collection of medieval manuscripts and leaves, significant holdings of medieval studies and early modern materials in facsimile, early printed works ...

Medieval Women: In their Own Words spans the four centuries from 1100 to 1500. This broad swathe of history is the British Library’s natural ground: prior to the hack in 2023, many of the ...

Join us for a special opportunity to see a number of medieval manuscripts temporarily on loan from the Newberry and discuss their interpretations. This event is hosted by the Medieval Research Group ...

The Sherborne Missal is one of the most famous illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages and now the British Library has scanned it in high resolution, so anyone can check out it's jawdropping ...

“Medieval Times at the Library” will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 15, at the West Bank Regional Library, 2751 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey. As it has in the past, the Barony of Axemoor ...

A unique library of medieval manuscripts, devastated by fire during World War II and considered lost by scholars, could be restored using technology developed to study the surface of planets. The ...

A recent shelving mistake in Sterling Memorial Library led administrators to accelerate plans to create a reference collection that the Medieval Studies program has been seeking for more than 10 years ...

The Vatican Film Library holds more than 200 full or partial facsimiles of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. A manuscript facsimile is a published, printed photographic reproduction that captures ...

He wrote an essay suggesting that accessing the “hidden medieval library” in the spines of books could reveal thousands of new text fragments.

The British Library has been trying to decipher the inscription on a 13th-century sword, and has come up with nothing. So now it's your turn to try to figure it out.