‘What do we know about love in twelfth-century France?’ asks Georges Duby. Indeed, what do we know about love? Until quite recently in the history of the world, we’ve only heard one side of the story ...

Tucked within the hilltop campus of the University of Coimbra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Biblioteca Joanina is a baroque jewel of European academia. Commissioned by King João V in the 18th ...

Byzantine Emperor Theophilos and his court, as depicted in the Skylitzes Chronicle. Credit: Skylitzes Chronicle, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Greek minuscule is a style of Greek handwriting that ...

At its height Oxford’s book trade enjoyed the establishment of Dominican and Franciscan friaries in need of books for university activities and preaching, and an early demand from lay figures for ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Some of the most beautiful objects to survive from the mediæval world in the west are the sumptuous illuminated manuscripts, often made by monks and nuns in the abbeys that filled the medieval ...

Analysis: How one man's drink-induced unconscious trip in 12th century Cork reshaped how the Western world imagines eternal damnation When most of us picture Hell, we don't think about the sparse ...

Hina was first introduced to the BactiVac Network in 2021, whilst completing her postdoctoral research at University College London, UK. Hina’s supervisor at the time, Professor Sudaxshina Murdan, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Every book was a laborious project during the Middle Ages. And ...

Every book was a laborious project during the Middle Ages. And according to a first-of-its-kind quantitative review, more than a few of them were penned by women. Experts estimate medieval scribes ...