Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval times—classical ... of the library’s manuscripts were written on parchment, the specially prepared skin of a calf ...

A study provides new insights into the many overlooked women scribes who wrote manuscripts in the Middle Ages.

A select few suits of armor were crafted with secret techniques that made them stronger than others, possibly even bulletproof. Historians and ballistics experts reconstructed the amor of an elite ...

The vast majority of historical parchment samples, though, can be traced to medieval times. There are roughly a million books made of parchment still intact from the medieval era, Stinson says ...

Throughout the medieval period, artists and viewers prized a close adherence ... This fragment of illuminated parchment mounted on wood presents Christ as a beautiful ideal. The gently delineated ...

2025, with Tuomas Heikkilä from CHARM as one of the authors) published in npj Heritage Science, studied the vibrant colors of medieval Swedish manuscripts. By analyzing ten parchment fragments from ...