An amateur scribe, Heege copied out several books and built up his own personal library of medieval comedy. Most of the stories in Heege’s collection riff on other popular tales from the time, but one ...

During the Middle Ages, scribes discovered a widely used pronunciation of the "n" sound that didn't have a written equivalent ...

In order to recognize "progress" in Dark Age medicine, it is essential to see the broader patterns that led a medieval scribe to copy out a set of recipes using vulture organs. The major ...

Palaeography, which involves the examination of handwriting and scripts, plays a crucial role in deciphering and dating manuscripts, determining script origins, and identifying scribes or scriptoria.