The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

This book is among nearly 100 found in France by researchers at the University of Cambridge to be bound with seal skin. The books belong to a French monastery from the 12th century. (Matthew ...

The White Rock author's current career as a writer of children's books has come about directly from lived experience – ...

Books with furry covers are indicative ... value or symbolism,” researchers said. “The seal was rarely depicted in medieval art and did not hold a place in heraldry, which developed at that ...

And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans ... Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants ...

U.S. Navy SEAL Jason Redman and his wife Erica share advice from their new book ‘Mission ... Davis I Took a 91-hour Amtrak Train Ride With My 1-year-old Baby — Here's What It Was Like and ...

Zibby Publishing is not the only press with that approach. Northern California-based author Karen Nelson published her first ...