Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book
Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...
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A Marxist Account of the Medieval Mediterranean
Donkeys are friendly animals: intelligent and patient, they have been used for millennia to transport the widest variety of ...
Radical study of medieval warhorses unveiled in new book
The most comprehensive study of medieval warhorses ever undertaken will be released in the form of a radical new book this ...
Medieval Tales of Merlin and Arthur, Hidden for Centuries, Return to Light
Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...
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There’s no such thing as a ‘golden age,’ says Renaissance scholar
In new book, UChicago’s Ada Palmer explores popular misunderstandings of the Renaissance and historical myths used for ...
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Women Played a More Important Role in Producing Medieval Manuscripts Than Previously Thought
New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...
The hidden hand of medieval female scribes
A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...
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Research Reveals Medieval Warhorse Secrets in New Book
The most comprehensive study of medieval warhorses ever undertaken will be released in the form of a radical new book this ...