Opening on 30 May at the National Museum of Ireland on Kildare Street in Dublin, the exhibition will run for four months.

How analysis of texts from the early medieval period can help us understand comets - and our universe. The dam at Marsh Lake, Minnesota, has created an unexpected opportunity for pelicans.

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

Amidst the decline of Catholicism in France, the reconstruction of the Abbey of St. Wandrille emerges as a powerful sign of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

EU member states backed the introduction of trade countermeasures against the U.S. on April 9 in response to Washington's recent tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum, the European Commission ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

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 ...