New research from the University of Cambridge sheds light on the use of seal products across Europe during the middle ages, ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in ...

""Templars" chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Knights Templar, an order of warrior-monks founded in the early 12th ...

At the end of the ninth century, a group of Roman Catholic monks in France struck out on their own. Dissatisfied with the rules of the Benedictine abbey they called home, they created the Cistercian ...

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

At a time when the Catholic Church was reforming and modernizing, Dworschak and his advisors saw an opportunity to emulate ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.