There are many sad truths about medieval manuscripts. They took extremely long to write. Scribes’ eyesight was a common casualty … More

Europe’s two most productive groups of scribes that written culture depended on were the slaves of the ancient period and … More

There is a meme out there about the power of books which shows a little girl standing on top of … More

A great deal of medieval architecture was inspired by manuscript art. And a lot of medieval manuscript art began in … More

If Arachne was the greatest weaver, Penelope was the world’s ultimate unraveller. The two women belong to two different tales, … More

It is a curious fact that there are no ancient myths about writing and reading, although writing had been invented … More

With the advent of Christianity, the West was introduced to a novel reading practice, that of meditative reading. Ruminating over … More

One of the great discoveries of classical antiquity was the principle of mimesis. It’s not that the peoples of the … More