As a result, animals turned up "in any possible context where art would be made", from wall paintings and carved doorways to clothing and coats of arms. It's no secret that medieval animal paintings ...

Medieval manuscripts can tell us a lot about how ... In the Middle Ages, people were identified by the kinds of animals they kept. For instance, pet monkeys were a symbol of wealth.

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

Bahr undertook a complete re-examination of the tome, complete with spectroscopic analysis and mathematical investigation, to ...

The nonsense verse, “the Battle of Brackonwet,” is set in a village populated by anthropomorphic animals ... discipline of studying old manuscripts is called paleography. “It is all the more difficult ...

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...