The secrets of medieval Europe's first large-scale publishing industry have been revealed

The mystery of how the medieval world made some of its finest books has at last been solved – after 700 years. New research is revealing the trade secrets of Europe’s very first large-scale commercial publishing industry. Several generations before the widespread introduction of paper into Christian Europe, the continent’s craftsmen discovered a way of transforming animal skins into wafer-thin sheets for use as pages in medieval books.
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