Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

A recent study by researchers Dr. Dorota Dzierzbicka and Dr. Daria Elagina re-examined and translated a rare first-hand ...

A study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science unveiled that some medieval manuscripts from ... these regions to mainland Europe. French monks likely did not know the origin of ...

How analysis of texts from the early medieval period can help us understand comets - and our universe. The dam at Marsh Lake, Minnesota, has created an unexpected opportunity for pelicans.

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 ...

More than a millennium after they were carried abroad for safekeeping, a collection of early Irish monastic manuscripts is returning to Ireland for a landmark exhibition at the National Museum in Dubl ...