Lets travel back in time and look at the life of one Medieval monk, who it turned out became a magician, an outlaw, a ...

Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving glimpse of daily lives of early medieval Irish monks ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some manuscripts, rather than skins from the local boars and deer ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Middle Ages, Norse traders harvested walrus ivory and pelts from Greenland and sent them to mainland Europe. While Clairvaux and its monks were far inland from these coastal outposts ...

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 ...