Pages from older books were often used to reinforce the spines of books written in the 16th century as the use of the printing press became more widespread. Stephanie Leith studies those materials to ...

Stephanie Leith’s work focuses on analyzing the spines of medieval era books to look for clues about life and literature at ...

Has the bell finally tolled for Shakespeare and Byron? New research conducted by philosophers of science Brian Porter and ...

Is it possible, though, that we aren't too far off the point where seasoned readers of poetry are able to discover a richness ...

In the Cornish moorlands of southwest England lies a mysterious mound of stone and turf. Now covered with grass, the site was ...

Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

A campaign to return a 13th-century copy of the Bible to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral has been hailed by the ...

Representations of and by Italian Women From the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period, will be offered Wednesdays, 4:35-6:55 p.m., this coming spring.