Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

So last week, a group of researchers who were studying a set of medieval books ... clue what a seal might look like, judging from a picture they drew in one of their books. COLLINS: It basically ...

Marginalia are essentially cartoons that were found in the margins of prayer books ... that looks like Yoda and nuns picking penises from a tree. Professor of the History of Medieval Art at ...

In medieval Europe ... “I was like, ‘That’s not possible. There must be a mistake,’” says study lead author Élodie Lévêque, a historian and book conservator at Panthéon-Sorbonne ...