An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

For centuries, the image of a monk hunched over ... more significant role in medieval book production than previously thought. And their contributions have been hiding in plain sight.

Books with furry covers are indicative of medieval monks’ role in international trade, researchers said. Lévêque, et al (2025) Royal Society Open Science At the end of the ninth century ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in sealskins procured by Norse traders from as far away as Greenland.

Forget all the myths you’ve heard about the Dark Ages: medieval scholars didn’t think ... instruments that these men – many of them monks – used to explore the universe around them.

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

At the end of the ninth century, a group of Roman Catholic monks in France struck out on ... represents a remarkable corpus of 1450 surviving medieval books, with approximately 50% still in ...