New scientific research confirms Irish provenance of manuscripts on loan from Switzerland, returning to Ireland for the first ...

More than 80,000 ancient manuscripts from the Vatican Library will be restored and digitized thanks to an agreement with the ...

Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

National Museum of Ireland's St Gallen exhibition highlights historical links between Irish missionary and Switzerland ...

Created around 1458, the manuscript is one of only seven surviving illuminated manuscripts of ... of craftsmanship associated with the late Middle Ages. “The Black Book of Hours serves as ...

Thanks to seal skins, the history of the Middle Ages is being updated, as this period has always been seen as predominantly characterized by the use of local resources. Conversely, the discovery in ...

About 37 years old at the time of his enslavement, he survived the Middle Passage to the United States and ... The objects on view include exquisitely illuminated manuscripts featuring gold leaf and ...

In the Middle Ages, there are references to how cannibalism was recurrent ... implied that there was a reality that needed to be regulated and controlled. An illuminated manuscript by the Boucicaut ...

In contrast, the Middle Ages in Europe was all about the Christian ... A lot of these monasteries had artist studios where monks made illuminated manuscripts. The pages of these volumes were ...

The show features some of TMA’s recent acquisitions of Ethiopian artwork from the Middle Ages to today ... from early Christian manuscript illumination, which shares similarities with traditions ...