A prayerbook brought from the Mountaintop of the Giants to the Lands Between, the Fire Monk’s Prayerbook contains the heretical incantations in the Elden Ring. It was banned because it contained the ...

Forgery of official documents by monks was rife across medieval Europe because of social changes and the growing importance of the written word, a new book shows. Fake documentation began to be ...

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver. It was made at ...

Books with furry covers are indicative of medieval monks’ role in international trade, researchers said. Lévêque, et al (2025) Royal Society Open Science At the end of the ninth century, a group of ...

Wonder how much the tariffs were on this? A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding light on a booming, ancient ...

Rachel Moss works for Trinity College Dublin. In the past she has received funding from the Irish Research Council and Bank of America Merrill Lynch for research work relevant to this article. The ...

The poor scribes of yore who were spiritual calligraphers and illuminators of Ireland's most famous book, many housed in Trinity College Dublin, the monks and scholars of Ireland. Ah, June! The sun is ...

13th-century Christian songbook made of furry sealskin may be Norway's oldest surviving book Caergwrle Bowl: A 3,300-year-old stone-and-tin bowl with gold oars and 'protective eyes' Corleck Head: A ...