The National Library of France has placed four books from the 19th century "under quarantine", reported AFP.
The reason is that their covers contain arsenic.
The discovery was made about five years ago. University scientists have...
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Byzantium in the 15th century is too easily dismissed as the anachronistic tail end of an ancient ecumenical empire, whose only achievements, apart from the heroic last stand of Constantinople in 1453, were the...
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The book explores aniconic tendencies in the post-iconoclastic lectionaries, with special emphasis on illuminated initial letters, unravelling their sources and models and offering an innovative approach to the enigma of their sudden and widespread...