Articles from category Literary studies

Time capsules. Studying the origins and lives of books

Who hasn’t heard their parents warn them, “Don’t scribble in your books!”? Yet, precisely such “crimes” against books, committed by our ancestors over the centuries – notes, underlining, and drawings…

The turbulent fate of a psalter book: scientists uncover a thousand years of history written on parchment strips

How did fragments of a book – which, legend has it, may have once belonged to the last Anglo-Saxon princess who fled the British Isles a thousand years ago –…