What type of images come to mind when you think of medieval art? Knights and ladies? Biblical scenes? Cathedrals? It’s probably not some unfortunate man in the throes of vomiting. It might surprise ...
Attention bibliophiles and antiquarians: did you know that some old manuscripts are downright deadly? In modern society, it’s entirely safe to browse through books, but for centuries, flipping through ...
Yearning princesses locked away in castles, heroic knights, hawkish Vikings — fragments of medieval European stories have permeated nearly every aspect of contemporary culture, from Taylor Swift songs ...
While studying a rare medieval manuscript in Oxford’s Weston Library, PhD student Jessica Hodgkinson noticed something unusual: a series of small, barely visible indentations at the bottom of page 18.
Ghostly images have been discovered in one of the UK’s most important medieval manuscripts. The phantoms were found in the Black Book of Carmarthen at the National Library of Wales — the earliest ...
More than 700 years ago, an anonymous scribe set down the tales of King Arthur and his Round Table in a vellum manuscript. He punctuated the Old French text with 126 miniature illustrations adorned ...
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Medieval manuscript found in Rome contains oldest surviving English poem: What’s in the 1300-yo poem?
Turns out, love, tragedy, and literature existed even before Shakespeare! Hidden away in a quiet Roman library sat a book almost everyone thought lost. It crossed borders, survived all kinds of ...
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