Medieval manuscripts reveal the complex relationship between humans and cats during the Middle Ages, highlighting their bad reputation.

Medieval manuscripts are littered with images of cats – sharing their owner’s dinner, keeping them company, and even cosplaying as nuns. Cats in the middle ages: what medieval manuscripts ...

“We assume that the manuscript is a genuine medieval object and not a modern forgery,” Bowern and Lindemann assert in their 2021 analysis, citing the carbon dating, as well as the manuscript’s ...

This is the world of the Très Riches Heures, arguably the greatest and most valuable of all medieval illuminated manuscripts. Commissioned by the Duc de Berry, the enormously wealthy brother of King ...

Another 43 manuscripts—18 from Clairvaux and other comparable ones from Medieval libraries around France and the U.K.—were subject to ... from Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages ...

Think medieval folks were all serious and pious? Think again. In this video, we dive into the surprisingly cheeky world of medieval humor – from bawdy jokes and playful insults to irreverent plays and ...

The rare medieval manuscript revealed live comedy sketches of entertainers in Middle Ages Britain Dr Wade's study is published in The Review of English Studies , external journal on Wednesday.

The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe ...

In the Middle Ages, these fearsome monsters were adopted from antiquity and adapted to fit the mindset of the time. ... Manuscripts overflowed with dragons by the 12th and 13th centuries.

The figure of the fool walked off the margins of medieval manuscripts into the unholy courts of the Renaissance, then returned to the page as Hamlet’s Yorick. Later, in the age of reason and ...

It was 1910, or maybe 1911 or 1912, when Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish-born antiquarian, purchased a strange, medieval manuscript. Similar in size to an average paperback, at around 6 inches by 9 inches, ...