Important Medieval Manuscripts From the Collection of the Late Ernst Boehlen (Online), Tuesday, July 2, 2024, a fragment, c. 245 × 60 mm, preserving most of the outer column (the text is continuous) ...

Fragments of an almost 1,000-year-old lost manuscript have been uncovered, and it may have belonged to a princess who fled England after the country was conquered by the Normans in the 11th century.

At the turn of the 11th century, a Japanese woman known as Murasaki Shikibu penned what is often deemed the world’s first novel: a 54-chapter sojourn through the romantic and political exploits of a ...

“A Medieval Cosmopolis: Constantinople and Its Foreign Inhabitants,” in Alexander’s Revenge: Hellenistic Culture through theCenturies, ed. J. M. Asgeirsson and N. van Deusen (Reykjavik, 2002), 153-71, ...