Importing Medieval Buildings

From Atlas Obscura, here's a long but interesting essay on the late 19th/early 20th century trend of rich Americans importing entire medieval buildings from Europe.

When parchment goes bad

In Art History, we look at perhaps one or two pages from a dozen books. But there were lots more books, and lots more pages. And not all those pages were perfect. A medieval book scholar has a blog post on the creative solutions scribes had for rips, tears, and imperfections in their parchment.

Textual annotations

We look at some illuminated manuscripts for their images. Don't forget that the manuscripts not only have the text, but often have notes in the margin as well. My favorite is "Now I've written the whole thing: for Christ's sake give me a drink."