The reason so many knights did battle with snails in the margins of medieval manuscripts remains a mystery (Credit: The British Library) The pages of medieval books are stalked by a ferocious ...

A Lost Medieval Manuscript Featuring Arthurian Legends Is Uncovered At Cambridge. ... King Arthur and his court hold a banquet, where Merlin makes his entrance before then joining the king in battle.

Scholars may have an authentic manuscript of a medieval comedy show — and it's pretty funny The Cambridge historian who identified this 15th-century manuscript compares its humor to Monty Python ...

Inkulinati developer Yaza Games has announced manuscript workshop simulation game Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts. It will launch for PC via Steam in 2025, with other platforms to be announced.

Why medieval manuscripts are full of doodles of snail fights. ... According to Mr. Killacky, the battle with the snail is first seen in a colored manuscript produced in northern France around 1290.

Heege's manuscript, with its inclusion of low-brow nonsense verse, a mock sermon, and a burlesque romance, "gives us the rarest glimpse of a medieval world rich in oral storytelling and popular ...

This event is hosted by the Medieval Research Group as part of their Quaestio monthly showcases. About the Newberry. The Newberry, located in Chicago, is an independent research library, specializing ...

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 ...

Battle in the margins from the Gorleston Psalter (1310-1324). ... They experienced a brief revival, however, in medieval manuscripts towards the end of the 15th century.

Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the university’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Her boss was the curator of ...

The Shahnama, the Persian national epic, comes to life in an intricate illustrated 14th-century text made under the Mongols, on view at the National Museum of Asian Art.

The Shahnama, the Persian national epic, comes to life in an intricate illustrated 14th-century text made under the Mongols, ...