(The Library displays a different page each day.) These illuminated manuscripts are one of the wonders of medieval Europe. Imagine the monks in their stone huts, battered by sea winds, bent over ...

Beautiful medieval illuminated manuscripts have for centuries thought to have been the work of male scribes. But now archaeologists have found conclusive proof that nuns were involved in producing ...

Shoe says he feels a link between himself and the anonymous monks who worked on illuminated manuscripts ... good and evil; which the medieval man would have been particularly aware of.

O ne of the most remarkable achievements of the medieval world is an illuminated manuscript known as the Book of Kells.

Kreiner is a professor of history at the University of Georgia specializing in the early Middle Ages, and the author of The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction It’s ...

Evidence found at the ancient Soutra Hospital site, in Scotland, suggests the medieval Augustine monks also knew how to amputate limbs, fashion surgical instruments, induce birth, stop scurvy and even ...

Given that the Book of Revelations in the Bible warns of a blood-red moon appearing in the end times, medieval monks tended to take special note of the moon's coloration in their observations of ...

Niels Meulman imagines medieval monk Eadfrith like a fellow ... Shoe says he feels a link between himself and the anonymous monks who worked on illuminated manuscripts for many years.