A millennium after its completion, an epic Persian poem is providing the springboard for a new centre of Persian studies in Cambridge.
Examples of the world’s oldest science and literature – 2,500-year-old clay writing tablets – hold clues as to how ancient scholars acquired and used...
Art historian Professor Paul Binski describes his ventures into the gold-embellished world of illuminated manuscripts.
An academic industrial consortium is developing the scientific know-how to underpin a printing revolution.
Close scrutiny of text is the bedrock of a research culture that spans practically the whole range of contemporary English studies.
Medieval culture pervaded Shakespeare's life and work. Professor Helen Cooper examines its influence on the work of the world's greatest playwright...
A new Centre for Children’s Literature is providing a focus for research on how children are shaped by early encounters with books and film.
A digital archive of 500-year-old 'filofaxes' offers extraordinary insight into early thought and writing practices.
A unique collaboration has resulted in the re-issue of over 1,000 rare books of enduring scholarly value.
A new chapter in textual scholarship is beginning, thanks to the launch of the Centre for Material Texts.
The purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is...
The book publishing industry has gone through more change during the past few decades than in any comparable period in its 500-year history...