The current library hall was completed in 1767, designed by architect Peter Thumb in an ornate Rococo style. Inside, walnut ...

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Members of the Harvard community gathered yesterday in the Barker Center to celebrate the inauguration of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, a new translation series produced and distributed by ...

A collection of medieval English manuscripts that had been in private hands is on exhibition for the first time in the United States at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in a special, ...

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 ...

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-year grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...