They say March comes in like a lion and goes out l...  ...even though it was a story from over a week ago, Medieval Manuscript Peed on by a Cat went viral and was read enough t...

Cursed cats! They are so fond of disrupting human...  ...are so fond of disrupting human work, especially medieval manuscript composition. In 1420, a scribe in what is now the...

Does your cat walk all over your desk? It'...  ...ows. Emir was working on a 15th century manuscript when he ran across this medieval

How can you know which pages in a medieval manuscript were the most popular? Kathryn Rudy of the Univer...

Wound Man, as he is known among the archivists at...  ...ng wounded in many, many different ways. But this medieval manuscript illustration of him was useful for training docto...

Tree ring data indicates that sometime around 774 or 775 A.D., an intense burst of radiation hit the Earth. What was its source? Scientists were uncertain, but it was probably a supernova. Unfortunately, there were no re...

This funny medieval drawing of a knight engaged in battle with an eno...  ...ns that apparently had very little to do with the manuscript they accompanied. Images from the British Library...

No, you're not looking at a secret level in a...  ...vel in a Super Mario game. This is a picture of a medieval illuminated manuscript with a touch of photoshoppery applied. Carl Pyrdu...  ...a touch of photoshoppery applied. Carl Pyrdum, a medieval scholar, uses our friendly p...

Having to endure the mind numbing monotony of...  ...o endure the mind numbing monotony of duplicating manuscripts by hand every day of their cloistered lives, medieval monks vented their frustration by adding cartoons...  ...the links for a sample of the comedy stylings of medieval...

One critical difference: the umpire has a halb...  ...es Hours, a Fourteenth Century Flemish devotional manuscript , contains illustrations of people playing somethi...