New Project Explores the Craft of Writing in the Medieval Nordic World
A major Nordic research effort is taking a fresh look at the earliest written culture in medieval Finland—by studying not only what documents say, but what they are made of.
Paleography at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=paleography
Previously Unknown Medieval Chronicle Discovered
A newly discovered chronicle from the early eighth century is giving medieval historians a rare new window onto the political shocks and religious debates that reshaped the eastern Mediterranean in the decades before and after the rise of Islam.
https://www.medievalists.net/2026/02/previously-unknown-medieval-chronicle-discovered/
More articles about Maronite Chronicle of 713:
https://medievalworlds.net/0xc1aa5572_0x004102d6.pdf
X-rays from SLAC's synchrotron reveal star maps in a centuries-old manuscript
Pages from the Codex Climaci Rescriptus palimpsest from the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, were brought to the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to recover erased astronomical text, especially fragments from Hipparchus' star catalog.
Hipparchus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Hipparchus
Over 32,000 medieval manuscripts transcribed in four months using AI
Medievalists can now access automated transcriptions of 32,763 digitised medieval manuscripts, produced in just four months as part of a project called CoMMA—a large-scale corpus designed to make manuscript texts searchable and analysable at a scale that would be impossible to tackle by hand.
https://www.medievalists.net/2026/01/32000-medieval-manuscripts-transcribed-using-ai/
Original paper:
https://inria.hal.science/hal-05299220
The CoMMA website:
https://comma.inria.fr/homepage
5 Dazzling Medieval Manuscripts That Have Outlasted Empires
These manuscripts stand out for their artistry, craftsmanship, and historical significance.
by Tim Brinkhof
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/illuminated-medieval-manuscripts-to-know-2710634
Old manuscripts at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=old+manuscripts
Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made for a Monastic Dining Hall?
A new study offers a fresh way of thinking about one of the most famous works of medieval art by asking a deceptively simple question: where was the Bayeux Tapestry originally meant to be seen?
https://www.medievalists.net/2025/12/bayeux-tapestry-monastic-dining-hall/
Original article:
https://academic.oup.com/histres/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hisres/htaf029/8377922?login=false
Six centuries of secularism
When the first ‘how-to’ books began to explain the way the world worked, they paved the way for science and secularism
by William Eamon
Secularism at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/21793
Break out the calculators: November 23 is Fibonacci Sequence Day
The cornerstone of modern math wouldn’t be possible without the Hindu-Arabic numerical system.
by Andrew Paul
https://www.popsci.com/science/fibonacci-sequence-day-2025/
Fibonacci at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=fibonacci
Scientists found the key to accurate Maya eclipse tables
Eclipse tables in the Dresden Codex were based on lunar tables and adjusted for slippage over time.
by Jennifer Ouellette
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/study-how-the-maya-created-such-accurate-eclipse-tables/
Original article:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt9039
Tutivillus Is Watching You
For medieval scribes, mistakes couldn’t be easily shrugged off, as Tutivillus, the stickler demon, was always looking over their shoulders.
By: Amelia Soth
https://daily.jstor.org/tutivillus-is-watching-you/
Medieval manuscripts at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=medieval+manuscripts
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