Kadagan/Shutterstock Consider Rabat a time capsule of the last millennium: Inside its historic walls you’ll find 500-year-old ...

A University of Houston-Victoria history faculty member has received her second fellowship in the past few years and will have the opportunity to finish a research project in California.

A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.

This isn’t the sort of book you fit neatly into your collection; it’s the sort of book you build a collection around ...

Medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin are actually made of sealskin from northern regions ...

Albany native Justin Willson has accepted a position as assistant professor of Medieval Worlds in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University. Willson currently works as curator at the ...

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

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

On Saturday, April 12 at 11 am, the Clark Art Institute presents "A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature," a talk by ...