Henry James returned to America in 1904 with three objectives: to see his brother William, to deliver a series of lectures on Balzac, and to gather material for a pair of books about modern America.

They are typically artifacts from within the last century that get misplaced for a few decades. This book in particular was donated by a family with close ties to the surgeon who anatomized Corder ...

“The way it was reused tells us about archival practices in 16 th-century England. It’s a piece of history in its own right.” Having ultimately decided to leave it be, the university then ha ...

A fragment of a 13 th century piece of French prose was discovered, having been used as the binding for pages of a 16 th-century property record in the University of Cambridge library. The fragment ...

Modern reconstruction of Byzantine /Eastern Roman Cataphract armor. This example is from replicates armor ... Byzantine manuscript depicting scenes from a battle in the 13th century. Credit: Public ...

Contradictory data emerging from recent archaeological excavations in Sicily” 3) Husamettin Simsir (Notre Dame), “Anthroponymic appellations, names, sobriquets, nicknames and titles of mid-15 ...

A Grade II listed Yorkshire castle which dates back to the 13th Century is up for sale for £7m. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an underground structure at the Binnenhof in The Hague, revealing some of the oldest structural remains of the historic site, dating back to the 13th century, the ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in sealskins procured by Norse traders from as far away as Greenland.

See treasures Researchers from the Cambridge University Library discovered part of a 13th-century manuscript “hidden in plain sight” in the binding of another book, according to a March 25 ...