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

One example I highly recommend focuses on the work, not the life, of its subject.

“The Naibbe cipher is my attempt to find a way to encode something like Latin by hand as text that partially mimics the Voynich Manuscript's strange properties. The cipher works by randomly breaking a ...

T.R. Aravindan’s lecture demonstration traced the composer’s rare kritis and the evolving raga identities.

On The Dawn of Life, his translation of MK Gandhi’s grand-nephew Prabhudas Gandhi’s memoir, Jivannu Parodh, from the original ...

One of the most amazing accomplishments of Byzantine monasteries was the miraculous preservation of ancient Greek treasures ...

The familiar five-line music staff emerged from an 11th-century monk who mapped pitches onto the human hand when directing ...

Midway through The Beast in Me, Netflix’s entertainingly flawed saga of murder and longform journalism, comes a moment guaranteed to make the editors in the audience smile. Nile Jarvis, a menacing ...

Matthew Becklo, who edited John Allen’s eleventh and final book in 2023, reflects on John’s vision for a “Catholic Commons” to resist the growing “culture of contempt” without eliding real differences ...

Writers Victoria, one of a national network of centres providing crucial support and employment to writers, has lost its funding – putting its “very survival” at risk. Its loss would make Victoria ...

Jarvis has led Princeton University Library through a decade of growth and transformation, redefining what a modern academic ...

A careless moment in a 15th-century workshop involving one curious cat walking across freshly inked parchment has turned into a rare time capsule of everyday medieval life. More than 500 years later, ...