KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A medieval art historian has won Western Michigan University's Otto Gründler Book Prize for her book on the study of absences, “lacunae” and gaps in manuscripts from the Middle Ages ...

The bibliophiles in Christopher de Hamel’s lavishly illustrated book ensured the survival of medieval texts over centuries. By Bruce Holsinger Bruce Holsinger teaches at the University of Virginia and ...

Oftentimes, we are preoccupied with the contents of a book rather than the book itself. The phrase, “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is preached as a metaphorical reminder not to be quick to judge ...

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 ...

Researchers investigated 12th- and 13th-century manuscripts from an abbey in France that were clad in furry outer covers. Matthew Collins In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in a ...

Tuomas Heikkilä, Åslaug Ommundsen, Lars Boje Mortensen and Matthew Collins have won an ERC Synergy Grant to explore medieval book culture in the CODICUM project. The project will investigate ...

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The British Library has digitized one of the most astounding works of art of the Middle Ages, an illuminated manuscript known as the Sherborne Missal, making it viewable in astonishing detail online.

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 ...