Historians used to believe that only men wrote manuscripts in the medieval times, but evidence has proved them wrong. Scient...  ...nal of scribes to use.Who would have thought that medieval women participated in the production of religious...  ...women participated in the p...

How long have blind people used dogs as their guid...  ...going on since antiquity. These dogs are seen in medieval manuscripts , the kind that bored monks illuminated with drawi...  ...ngs of everyday life. The drawing above is from a manuscript from the late 12th century. Dr. Krista A. Murchis...  ...up quite...

For having given birth to the modern English langu...  ...Old English - the now defunct language spoken in medieval Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers - would hav...  ...surviving written records.But in case of original manuscripts of poetry in Old English, there are only four sur...  ...tory “Dream of...

Medieval scribes spent years upon years painstakingly copy...  ...they added personal notes and wacky art to their manuscripts . So is it any wonder that they'd also include a w...  ...to make off with their work? Quite a few of those manuscripts still exist, with warnings in th...

Saffron is worth its weight in gold, and can cost...  ...nell in The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary. Medieval monks found that mixing a primitive glue of egg w...  ...ould stand in for gold in the production of their manuscripts .There's a lot more to the history of saffron. Rea...

Or brightness! Or maybe a strong glow? Definitely...  ...horns. Which means that Moses is easy to spot in medieval and Renaissance art—he’s the guy with...  ...version of the peer review process. The resulting manuscript , the King James Version, is celebrated as scriptu...

The Aberdeen Bestiary was written in England aroun...  ...ritten in England around 1200 AD. Bestiaries were manuscripts listing animals along with morality lessons. Most...  ...lustrated in full color, and is a treasure of the medieval era. It's been in the possession Aberdeen Univers...  ...Aberdeen Bestiary at...

(Image credit: Flickr user United Nations Photo)Pr...  ...a government library in Mali. The men swept 4,202 manuscripts off lab tables and shelves and carried them into...  ...ed them into the tiled courtyard. They doused the manuscripts —including 14th- and 15th-century works of p...  ...named Abdel Kader...

Scribes decorated medieval manuscripts with all kinds of weird thing, like rabbits, cats...  ...ng, which turned into an inside joke over time. A medieval meme, as it were. -Thanks, Phil Edwards!

We’ve posted many times about the weird marg...  ...y times about the weird marginal illustrations in medieval manuscripts . You might have noticed over time that rabbits ar...  ...e a great many strange things that can be seen in medieval illuminated manuscripts : weird...