William Noel: 'It was an extraordinary adventure to read the thoughts of a guy who lived over 2,000 years ago. In the field of old books nothing gets more romantic than that' - Weidenfeld and Nicolson ...
De Hamel (Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts) takes an expansive look at the history of creating and collecting ancient and medieval manuscripts since the 11th century. He profiles generations of ...
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 ...
Organized by the University Libraries Special Collections Division and the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, the symposium will take place at Mullins Library and the World ...
These opening letters for one of the psalms are a classic illustration of medieval illumination, relying on vibrant colors, geometric patterns, and illustrated scenes (image courtesy the British ...
More than 500 years ago, while a medieval scribe was carefully copying a religious manuscript by hand, a cat walked across the pages while the ink was still ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What type of images come to mind when you think of medieval art? Knights and ladies? Biblical scenes? Cathedrals? It’s probably ...
For centuries, the image of a monk hunched over a desk, painstakingly copying manuscripts by candlelight, has dominated our perception of scholarship in the Middle Ages. But what about the women? A ...