Hundreds of drones illuminated the night sky above Spain’s Montserrat Abbey on Saturday in a tribute to Pope Francis, hours ...

Video. Hundreds of drones illuminated the night sky above Spain’s Montserrat Abbey on Saturday in a tribute to Pope Francis, ...

The wealth of Siena’s visual culture is represented with illuminated manuscripts; sculptures in marble, ivory, terracotta and ...

It’s not a large exhibition, but it’s a versatile one, covering medieval bookmaking technology and science, the social lives ...

One 15th Century manuscript compiled by a Carmelite friar, and translated from Latin, included a suggested infertility cure ...

“There are less than 40 surviving manuscripts of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin,” Cambridge notes, “with each one unique since ...

Europe is home to some of the world's oldest libraries, most of which are hidden in quaint small towns. These libraries offer ...

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King Arthur and Merlin, with its preservation considered a miracle.

Additionally, the work draws from Western artistic traditions referencing medieval European tapestries and illuminated manuscripts from the Books of Hours. The creation of Concordia required ...

It is rare to find medieval manuscripts in their original bindings, but some from the 12th and 13th centuries have been preserved in Cistercian libraries such as Clairvaux and its daughter abbeys.

The extensive use of these skins does not appear to follow a hierarchical criterion: manuscripts of varying content and value ... they of the networks that brought them from distant lands? Medieval ...