The bibliophiles in Christopher de Hamel’s lavishly illustrated book ensured the survival of medieval texts over centuries. By Bruce Holsinger Bruce Holsinger teaches at the University of Virginia and ...

I’ve written numerous medieval-history books, with about one million copies in print. Yet when an editor at the Free Press called in the summer of 1997, asking whether I would consider doing a book on ...

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The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval scribes ...