A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

It also yielded a smaller group of finds from an early medieval cemetery, as well as a collection of objects from the period after the abbey was dissolved, according to Davey. "We knew the site ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some manuscripts, rather than skins from the local boars and deer ...

ST. GALLEN, Switzerland — A Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage site, ...

‘While Anchor Church Field [located near the abbey] was widely held to be the ... have been an area of local significance well into the medieval period. That means the henge could have been ...

High above the Abbey floor, the Galleries in the beautiful 13th century triforium display our greatest treasures and tell the story of our thousand-year history. The Galleries are in a medieval space ...