As the medieval book trade declined, Oxford scribes had to turn their hands to other crafts to get by. A t its height ...

Every book was a laborious project during the Middle Ages. And according to a first-of-its-kind quantitative review, more than a few of them were penned by women. Experts estimate medieval scribes ...

A thousand-year-old Gospel manuscript, believed to have been written by a community of women in medieval Germany, will be offered at Christie's London on December 10th as part of Valuable Books, ...

Lesser known than some other beloved tales of larger-than-life heroes such as Gilgamesh, Beowulf and King Arthur, the Song of Wade is a case study in what happens when stories aren’t written down. The ...

To “doodle” means to draw or scrawl aimlessly, and the history of the word goes back to the early 20th century. Scribbling haphazard words, squiggly lines and mini-drawings, however, is a much older ...

James Wade is an associate professor of English at the University of Cambridge (University of Cambridge). (CN) — If you take Richard Heege at his word, then the reason so few minstrel tales survived ...

FAIRBANKS — "May you live in interesting times,” is a particularly nasty Chinese curse, and while librarians adore intellectual stimulation, sometimes even we think enough is enough. There is Zhang ...