Henry James returned to America in 1904 with three objectives: to see his brother William, to deliver a series of lectures on Balzac, and to gather material for a pair of books about modern America.

From Arthur’s birth to his ascension to king and eventually his presumed death, medieval writers told ... Library discovered part of a 13th-century manuscript “hidden in plain sight” in ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in sealskins procured by Norse traders from as far away as Greenland.

Historians recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document depicting the tales ... as they were individually handwritten by medieval scribes, and fewer than 40 copies are known to exist.

Among other notable inscriptions, a charcoal drawing was located bearing the shield of the influential patrician family von ...