In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in a ... Established in 1115, the abbey housed an order of Catholic monks known as the Cistercians, who were also known as the “White Monks” for ...

The researchers began their investigation at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey in Champagne, France, which holds 1,450 medieval books produced by scribes at this Cistercian abbey, part of a Catholic ...

Books with furry covers are indicative of medieval monks’ role in international ... a group of Roman Catholic monks in France struck out on their own. Dissatisfied with the rules of the ...

It could take years for archaeologists to properly excavate and preserve the delicate wooden vessel, which likely became shipwrecked Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks ...

At the end of the ninth century, a group of Roman Catholic monks in France struck ... represents a remarkable corpus of 1450 surviving medieval books, with approximately 50% still in their ...