The cover of author Tracy A. Daigrepont's book “Relentless” looks like a painting. And that's because it was painted by artist Chastity Sayer Smith.

A recent study by Dr. Alar Läänelaid and his colleagues has provided new insights into the creation of the oldest dated ...

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 ...

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 than ...

Chaffee County Public Health (CCPH), the Town of Buena Vista, and Book Club Salida are inviting the public to a community ...

Medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin are actually made of sealskin from northern regions ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

The Making of the President 1960 laid the foundation for election books; it became a bestseller, won Theodore White a ...

It’s the publishers' first opportunity to impress upon readers information about genre, themes, similar books, and even the reader’s own age and gender. A good cover can help a book reach its ...

A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding ...

The entomologist urges everyone to make their yard more ecofriendly by planting plants that provide food for insects.