Predating the Aztec Empire, Merton College Library in Oxford has been used by everyone from celebrated 14th-Century ...

Predating the Aztec Empire, the Merton College Library in Oxford has been in continuous use for more than seven centuries, ...

The Manderino Library is home to many of PennWest California’s more laid-back activities. On any of the four floors, students ...

It wasn’t easy to find a specific book on library shelves in the Middle Ages. The spine title had not yet been invented, and the books weren’t published in standard sizes. But readers didn’t have to ...

Employing a web application which promotes the use of computer technology in humanities research and instruction, a new Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts allows users to search for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Season 7 premiere of 'Game of Thrones' made it abundantly clear why real libraries of the Middle Ages put chains on their ...

PANNONHALMA, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could ...

Join us for a special opportunity to see a number of medieval manuscripts temporarily on loan from the Newberry and discuss their interpretations. This event is hosted by the Medieval Research Group ...

There are grand libraries, and then there is the Abbey Library of St. Gallen. Inside a Benedictine monastery in eastern Switzerland, this Baroque masterpiece holds around 160,000 volumes, including ...

Libraries are more than just buildings filled with books—they are time capsules of human knowledge, culture, and history. Some libraries have stood for centuries, surviving wars, natural disasters, ...

In the popular imagination, “medieval” and “women” aren’t always words which go together happily. Ideas about the lives of pre-Renaissance women tend to form two hazy stereotypes: an illiterate girl ...

Panel Proposal for the 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies Libraries evolved continuously throughout the Middle Ages. Yet, which forms did this evolution take? Which influences contributed ...