“Iris Green,” a pigment extracted from the petals of blue iris flowers, was popular in the medieval era as an alternative to ...

An exhibition called "Paws on Parchment" tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from ...

It’s not uncommon for Medieval manuscripts to be bound in animal skins. The hides of deer and goats were used, as were those of boars. But a new analysis of 16 manuscripts held in a French abbey has ...

A careless moment in a 15th-century workshop involving one curious cat walking across freshly inked parchment has turned into ...

A super old manuscript in a Shropshire school library had been catalogued and shelved for generations. Only recently did ...

In the 1470s, a Flemish scribe left some meticulously drafted pages of an illuminated manuscript out to dry, only to find out the next day that his cat had trod over them, leaving inky paw prints on ...

What type of images come to mind when you think of medieval art? Knights and ladies? Biblical scenes? Cathedrals? It’s probably not some unfortunate man in the throes of vomiting. It might surprise ...

Gibson Library is in a Grade II listed building nestled in Saffron Walden, Essex, and is also home to unique annotated copies ...

A "priceless" manuscript held in a school library has been confirmed as the only surviving complete version of a work by an ...

A new study has revealed that nine out of every ten Irish manuscripts from the medieval era have been lost forever. A team of scholars from Ireland, Britain, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, and ...

To “doodle” means to draw or scrawl aimlessly, and the history of the word goes back to the early 20th century. Scribbling haphazard words, squiggly lines and mini-drawings, however, is a much older ...

Some dragons popped up in the latest summer course led by history instructor William Campbell and two colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. The fanciful creatures are among ...