In her new illustrated book, Swarthout guides readers through life in the Middle Ages with the same timely wit, making sense of broader Medieval culture through a contemporary lens. What would ...

At the Morgan Library, 15th-century illuminated atlases embody the medieval appetite for wonder and myth.

One of them, a tiny prayer book from the ... been passed down from medieval literature and then repackaged, re-popularized, for new audiences. This is a Howard Pyle illustrated version, which ...

Illuminated manuscripts ... to see these exquisite examples of medieval art. Similar problems obtain, of course, for the showing of the earliest printed books that were adorned with engraved ...

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture ... In the eleventh and twelfth books, Villani depicts a particularly eventful period in the history of Florence, whose grandeur is illustrated in several ...

But medieval sources do record that an illuminated manuscript was stolen from the stone church of Kells in 1006 which is likely to have been the Book of Kells. According to the Annals of Ulster it ...

In the medieval ages ... area and around the same time this woman was alive. An illuminated page from the Scivias, a 12th-century book written by the nun Hildegard of Bingen and painted by ...

Stored away in the rare-book library at Yale University is a late-medieval manuscript written in a cramped but punctilious script and illustrated with lively line drawings that have been painted ...

Every book was a laborious ... Experts estimate medieval scribes produced over 10 million manuscripts between 400-1500 CE, each one painstakingly copied, illustrated, and bound by hand.