Medieval News

A little over a year ago, we helped put online five manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls—ancient documents that include the oldest known bib...

One of the most interesting manuscripts of the late Middle Ages is now available online – The Geese Book, a lavishly and whimsically illumi...

I squinted at the calligraphic handwriting. (I don't read much Latin or Middle French, and in this script, it's challenging just t...

Fines for playing tennis, selling shoes before o’clock in the afternoon, or being an ale house haunter, are just some of the penalties in ...

A new interactive online database, which will make thousands of the oldest documents in Scotland’s history available to the public, has bee...

People can now explore St Andrews Cathedral, Scotland’s largest medieval church, as it looked in the Middle Ages, through a new online porta...

Perhaps it is fitting that students and scholars interested in the medieval world have to grapple with fiefdoms in order to find information...

The Getty Research Institute launched a new website last week, the Getty Research Portal, which promises to provide universal access to digi...

Imagine you’re in Rome, it’s 205 CE, and you’ve got to figure out the quickest way to transport wheat to Virunum, in what’s now Austria. Yo...

Trinity College Dublin historians have reconstructed invaluable medieval documents destroyed during the bombardment of the Four Courts in 19...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has granted the Walters Art Museum $265,000 for a three-year project to digitize, catalog an...

Twitter's popular hashtag, #thatawkwardmomentwhen gains another contribution when Criseyde tweets, "I just realized that my uncle i...

The Bodleian Libraries have digitized and made available for the first time their exceptional collection of the Cairo Genizah fragments. The...

It is now possible to zoom into the intricate, breathtaking details of one of the most important works of art from the medieval world, thank...

A project directed by academics at the University of Sheffield has made the archaeology of the world-famous Stonehenge site more accessible ...

Fascinating records from the Church Courts of York are now available on-line at the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of Yo...

The ‘Discover Medieval Chester’ project, which intends to promote the rich history of medieval Chester as a multi-cultural, multi-lingual fr...

The Bodleian Libraries have launched a mobile app featuring a selection of the rarest, most important and most evocative objects from the Bo...

In conjunction with their exhibition Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination, the British Library has created a Royal Manuscripts app ...

The secrets of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library on the sixth floor of Van Pelt Library have now been revealed on the internet. A two-yea...