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In medieval Europe, some handcrafted books were bound with skin from an unexpected source: seals. A new analysis of ancient DNA found in medieval books from European abbeys reveals that these seals ...

Despite popular opinions, the Middle Ages left behind objects that feel almost too extraordinary to be real. Some of their stuff even came covered in gold or carved to hold bones. But the best of the ...

Yesterday, Director Richard Landes of the Boston University Center of Millennial Studies and author of "The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Response in France around the Year 1000" among ...