First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

As Tihanyi explained to Sandee Oster at Phys.org, men in medieval European cultures were typically buried with functional items like tools and knives, or occasionally practical clothing ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.