The Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department at Brandeis ... which may be because the composition of red ink allowed it to flow more easily than blue.[1] The illuminated ...

But while they were discouraged from expressing their feelings in daily life, letters written by elite women of the medieval period are a rich source of information about their emotions.

The Paston family took their name from the village of Paston near Mundesley. The medieval letters come to an end just as the family achieved many of its goals, but the Pastons continued to be one ...

I found Tim Harford’s article on the history of the spreadsheet (FT Magazine, June 26) fascinating but paused at the discussion of Francesco di Marco Datini’s wool purchases. If he spent 100 ...

researchers discover 'Hairy books' were covered in sealskin by medieval monks The letter requests the dean's help in finding Joan and demanding that she return to her convent in York, Rees Jones ...

Medieval? The very word has evil phonetically embedded in it. Certain non-European political positions today are regularly and pejoratively dismissed as medieval. And then, dear reader ...

An example of one of the medieval letters collected in secret by Margaret Paston who was told to destroy them in case the authorities found them Dr Karen Smyth, from the University of East Anglia ...

The Paston family took their name from the village of Paston near Mundesley. The medieval letters come to an end just as the family achieved many of its goals, but the Pastons continued to be one ...

Two star-crossed medieval lovers, Abelard and Heloise ... academic - that some scholars say contains the long-lost love letters written by the ill-fated pair but others say is fake.

A hidden cache of love letters, the Holy Grail of medieval studies. A raging international literary controversy and allegations of fakery. All you need is a murder or two and you'd have another ...