Europe has some incredible colleges worth visiting, and one of them, featuring a unique artifact, has made Rick Steves' list ...

The Museum of Archaeology features artifacts from ancient and medieval Irish history ... Besides Trinity College Library’ Book of Kells exhibit, this is the best place in Dublin for bibliophiles.

First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...

The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...

The Book of Kells is still on display and there will be a new exhibit about this important manuscript. U.S. News Insider Tip: This must-see attraction is worth the (typically) long wait.

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By Alissa Nutting In his new book, David Szalay offers unvarnished scenes from a lonely, rags-to-riches life. By Dwight Garner Two new books use divergent styles to look at mind control ...

“I See You’ve Called in Dead” follows a middle-aged depressive who rediscovers life’s joys, with a little help from his friends. Steve Oney’s engaging and deeply reported “On Air ...

Chris Wickham is one of the best-known Marxist historians of the Middle Ages. In his book The Donkey and the Boat, he offers ...