Did you know that before printing presses or computers were made that medieval monks in Europe had to write everything by hand!? First the monks would choose what to write. There were not a lot of books in a library. The choices were tales, poems like Beowulf, books about saints, the Bible and some history. Most of the time they chose to copy the Bible and stories about saints. They stretched animal skins to make parchment. This is what they used instead of paper. They used colored ink and wrote with quills made out goose or swan feathers. They would illustrate the books with colored ink and gold. Books were so special back then that they chain the books to their desk!
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