For many people, the use of the word medieval conjures up a time of extreme poverty, war and plague with little in the way of redeeming features. Far from the dark images offered by certain Hollywood ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Medieval books were often bound with sealskin, as revealed by biocodicological analysis. Initially believed to be made from local animal skins, chemises were ...

A bibliometric analysis of medieval manuscript colophons reveals that at least 1.1% of manuscripts from 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, totaling over 110,000 texts, with about 8,000 ...

A 1658 map of Iceland, reprinted from Abraham Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, includes a sea monster known for catching its fish through cunning. Public Domain The creature was enormous.

Located in the medieval historic centre of Erfurt, the capital city of Thuringia, the property comprises three monuments: the Old Synagogue, the Mikveh, and the Stone House. They illustrate the life ...

Matthew Collins In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in a protective outer layer made from the hairy hides of local land mammals, such as deer or boar. But in some instances ...

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In fact, in early medieval England, around the year 1000, there was also a strong appetite for word puzzles designed to entertain (and ...

Medieval manuscripts are rich sources of knowledge about the past — and not all of the information is written on their pages. Élodie Lévêque at Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris and her ...

The denarii were likely struck in Prague using silver sourced through medieval trade networks. What makes the hoard particularly intriguing is its historical context. Researchers believe the cache may ...

The medieval knights of the Middle Ages were some of the fittest and strongest warriors of their time, which comes as no surprise given that they wielded swords and sprinted in armour weighing ...

At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and used to ...

Medieval strategy game Norland has unleashed a seriously hefty new update giving multiple core mechanics a polish. The Long Jaunt and Hooded Horse colony sim merges all the period drama of ...