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

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

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some manuscripts, rather than skins from the local boars and deer ...

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

Buddhist monks are protesting for full control over their holiest shrine, the Mahabodhi Temple, in Bodh Gaya, Bihar ...

The Hindu monks assumed control of the Bodh Gaya site after Buddhism’s decline in India following Islamic invasions in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.