Medieval manuscripts are littered with images of cats – sharing their owner’s dinner, keeping them company, and even cosplaying as nuns.
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Piecing together the mystery of medieval chant books means studying hand-made objects from centuries ago.
In 1944, the former archbishop of Canterbury mounted a case to preserve the Italian abbey, renowned for centuries for scholarship and devotion, but Allied forces had just destroyed it.
A handful of manuscripts remain which give researchers valuable insights into medieval science.
Hotly-contested debates about the early or late canonisation of the Qur'an may be resolved by a recent discovery.
The handwritten manuscript of Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables (1862) – from which the blockbuster stage show and numerous movies ultimately descend – has arrived at the State Library of Victoria (its…
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Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Islamic History, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor in Medieval History, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Art History, University of St Andrews
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Professor of Musicology and Music Theory, Dalhousie University
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Postdoctoral research associate, Department of Music, Fountain School of Performing Arts, Dalhousie University
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PhD Candidate, Medieval Literature, Bangor University
