The thick, polished animal skin used as paper during the Medieval era wasn’t very strong. It was really easy to rip during cleaning and preparation. But nobody could afford to toss away a page ...

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — So you want to live like you’re from the Middle Ages? Well, maybe that’s not a common aspiration, but nevertheless, ...

The Mapping Paper in Medieval England team, lead by Orietta Da Rold, began by trying to discover how many paper documents, dating from 1300 until 1475 (when William Caxton set up his first ...