This volume brings together scholars of history, manuscript studies, and art and architectural history to examine in conversation the varieties of medieval arch

Compares the archives of European states after 1500 to reveal changes in how records supported memory, authority and power.

In our age of unprecedented access to information, the handwritten records of the medieval era remain overwhelmingly dark - unread and unreadable - confining mo

Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinating insigh

Sarah Elliott Novacich explores how medieval thinkers pondered the ethics and pleasures of the archive. She traces three episodes of sacred history - the loss o