Found in 1986 and following a 39-year conservation project, Ireland's oldest and largest medieval book shrine is now on view.

Think medieval folks were all serious and pious? Think again. In this video, we dive into the surprisingly cheeky world of ...

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 ...

Nestled in the heart of Sarajevo, the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina houses one of the most extraordinary treasures of Jewish heritage—the Sarajevo Haggadah. This illuminated manuscript, a ...

Oualata is one of a UNESCO-listed quartet of ancient, fortified towns or "ksour", which in their heyday were trading and religious centers and now hold jewels dating back to the Middle Ages.

Illuminated manuscripts back in Ireland for the first time in more than 1,000 years. ... well known to Irish scholars in the early Middle Ages.

One of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts written in Irish goes on public display after a two-year ... It's like the Wikipedia of today. It's a real snapshot into the Middle Ages." ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has documented the widespread use of seal skins in Romanesque bookbindings of manuscripts produced between the 12th and 13th centuries in Cistercian ...

This 12th-century manuscript includes a self-portrait of a female scribe named Guda. Ommundsen et al. / Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025 During the Middle Ages, it was common to ...

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 ...

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 ...