A list of Medieval Times inspired book recommendations including By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult, The Dark Queens by Shelley Puhak, and The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman ...

In the early Middle Ages, Irish monks transported an important collection of texts to continental Europe. Written during ...

The researcher behind the viral art history-inspired social account Weird Medieval Guys offers advice on how to live, laugh and love in dark times.

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin.

PANNONHALMA, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could ...

Medieval Mummery THE FOOL OF VENUS—George Cronyn —Covici, Friede ($3). Of the ten long years that went to the making of The Fool of Venus, eight were spent on research and the other two ...

The medieval palette consisted partly of locally grown or easily made pigments, but also of incredibly dangerous substances and metamorphic rocks from far across the sea. The time, skill, and networks ...

In her novel (a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Author Oldenbourg has woven a huge and intricate tapestry of a medieval society so successfully that most people will be happy to look at it ...

12th century French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books. One group of books covers didn't look at all like the others. Protein fingerprint and DNA analysis revealed them to be ...

Weird Medieval Guys is an entertaining book. It’s bright and colourful and would make a perfect gift for anyone with an interest in the Middle Ages, or in history more generally.