Medieval Women: In their Own Words spans the four centuries from 1100 to 1500.This broad swathe of history is the British Library’s natural ground: prior to the hack in 2023, many of the ...

Why so many medieval manuscripts feature doodles ... We see this in a manuscript catalogued as Cotton Vespasian D. vi, which is currently held in the British Library in London.

The reason so many knights did battle with snails in the margins of medieval manuscripts remains a mystery (Credit: The British Library) The pages of medieval books are stalked by a ferocious ...

The British Library’s breathtaking new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, brings to life the experiences, stories and voices of women from the distant past. The show covers the ...

The British Library’s yearlong digitization of nearly 100 manuscripts related to medieval and Renaissance women provided the inspiration for “In Their Own Words.”While searching the ...

Over the course of three nights in 1422, the woman had visions of aggressive pets and insatiable worms tormenting a beloved ...

For 18 months, scholars at the British Library have been poring over 13 scrolls of birch bark that were found rolled up inside clay pots, convinced they were looking at ancient manuscripts.

Art History What 15th-Century Lovers Wrote in Their Valentines. One of the oldest Valentine's in the world proves chivalry wasn't always dead.

Stanford’s Green Library Special Collections is home to a vast selection of medieval manuscripts, rare texts and archival materials, offering an underutilized yet spectacular resource for ...

The British Library’s breathtaking new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, brings to life the experiences, stories and voices of women from the distant past. The show covers the period ...