Curator Earle Havens shares highlights from Johns Hopkins' collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts—and his team's ...

Members of the Harvard community gathered yesterday in the Barker Center to celebrate the inauguration of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, a new translation series produced and distributed by ...

A recent shelving mistake in Sterling Memorial Library led administrators to accelerate plans to create a reference collection that the Medieval Studies program has been seeking for more than 10 years ...

It wasn’t easy to find a specific book on library shelves in the Middle Ages. The spine title had not yet been invented, and the books weren’t published in standard sizes. But readers didn’t have to ...

Join us for a special opportunity to see a number of medieval manuscripts temporarily on loan from the Newberry and discuss their interpretations. This event is hosted by the Medieval Research Group ...

Otto F. Ege, an Ohio-based scholar and book dealer, made a controversial practice of dismantling medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and selling the individual leaves for profit during the first half ...

For most students, the closest opportunity to directly engage with medieval European psalms, classical Chinese poetry, early Islamic manuscripts or other historical artifacts is observing ...

Panel Proposal for the 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies Libraries evolved continuously throughout the Middle Ages. Yet, which forms did this evolution take? Which influences contributed ...

PANNONHALMA, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could ...

Libraries are more than just buildings filled with books—they are time capsules of human knowledge, culture, and history. Some libraries have stood for centuries, surviving wars, natural disasters, ...

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 has ...