Filippo Sorcinelli, who has been working with the Supreme Pontiff's Office for Liturgical Celebrations for twenty years, has ...

How analysis of texts from the early medieval period can help us understand comets - and our universe. The dam at Marsh Lake, Minnesota, has created an unexpected opportunity for pelicans.

It’s not uncommon for Medieval manuscripts to be bound in animal skins. The hides of deer and goats were used, as were those of boars. But a new analysis of 16 manuscripts held in a French abbey ...

A study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science unveiled that some medieval manuscripts from ... these regions to mainland Europe. French monks likely did not know the origin of ...

The Cistercian monks might not have even realized the skins had come from seals. These marine mammals were rarely depicted in medieval art or coats of arms, and there was no French word for ...

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 ...