Each of these writers, in their own way, modelled what it is to be an ‘inconvenient’ woman – something we need now, perhaps ...

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

Created around 1458, the manuscript is one of only seven surviving illuminated manuscripts of its kind. It is distinguished by gold and silver script on black-coloured vellum, a technique that ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover ... stones which glittered with such brightness that it illuminated the whole room.” Both scenes are part ...

When library archivists at the University of Cambridge in England inspected the cover of a 16th century property record, they realized it was made of pages repurposed from a medieval manuscript.

In terms of ancient, indecipherable books, no manuscript matches the sheer mystery of the Voynich manuscript. This ancient text, filled with strange and fantastical illustrations of unidentified ...

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