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

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 ...

It’s not uncommon for Medieval manuscripts to be bound in animal skins. The hides of deer and goats were used, as were those of boars. But a new analysis of 16 manuscripts held in a French abbey ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Medieval books were often bound with sealskin, as revealed by biocodicological analysis. Initially believed to be made from local animal skins, chemises were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inspired by medieval monks, Dr Aaron Ralby began building “memory palaces” to learn new languages in the way monks used to learn scripture. He's now developed this technique into an online service, ...