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

The study found a strong trade network between Greenland Norse and French abbeys, linking Cistercians to broader economies, including the fur trade with Viking descendants.

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

LEVEQUE: It gives a lot of information about life in the Middle Ages and how monks were actually connected to the world. CHANG: Elodie Leveque and Matthew Collins, two of the researchers who ...

The Cistercian monks might not have even realized the skins had come from seals. These marine mammals were rarely depicted in medieval art or coats of arms, and there was no French word for ...

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 ...