The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes ...

The editors discuss how a previously lost decades-old manuscript was found and pieced together. It's being called 'probably ...

A fragment of manuscript dating from the 13th century has been identified a text from the Arthurian legend. A rare discovery ...

He became famous for his love affairs, but Casanova was also a writer, diplomat and spy. Born in Venice 300 years ago, his ...

Europe has some incredible colleges worth visiting, and one of them, featuring a unique artifact, has made Rick Steves' list ...

Despite the upheaval in that era, Medieval Russians went about their business, and bored kids, including one named Onfim, ...

On Lucy Dacus’ fourth album, she threatens to throw a fit if she can’t win her girl’s heart. She swears that if she doesn’t, ...

VanDerStok, in other words, is a very small victory for the cause of gun control. But it is a victory. And it shows that, at ...

Tracking the footsteps provides modern scientists a view into ancient life.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have been able to virtually unroll the 700-year-old manuscript to 'unlock its secrets' - without damaging the poorly-preserved document. Described as ...

which has revealed some manuscript secrets, as well as the good, old-fashioned scrutiny Bahr gave the book in person. "My argument is that this physical object adds up to more than the sum of its ...