Medieval books are manuscripts, which means they were written by hand.
Illuminated manuscripts .
There are several histories written during the Middle ages that survive, either in the original or as copies. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle survives in several different original copies. Some of the copies of the histories of Bede, though not his original manuscript, date from the Middle Ages. There are a number of copies of Anna Comnena's Alexiad dating from the Middle Ages, and for all we know one of them might be her original manuscript. There are others, including others in the form of medieval manuscripts.
A person who lived in the Middle Ages is called medieval.
No, it was just from a story by Edgar Allan Poe called The Pit and the Pendulum written in 1842
During the middle ages, heresy trials were called inquisitions.
L. M. Eldredge has written: 'A handlist of manuscripts containing Middle English prose in the Ashmole collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford' -- subject(s): Bodleian Library, Catalogs, English prose literature, Library, Manuscripts, Manuscripts, English (Middle)
Illuminated manuscripts .
Margaret Laing has written: 'Catalogue of sources for a linguistic atlas of early medieval English' -- subject(s): Catalogs, Dialects, English language, Languages, Manuscripts, Manuscripts, English (Middle), Medieval Manuscripts, Texts
Julia Boffey has written: 'Manuscripts of English courtly love lyrics in the later Middle Ages' -- subject(s): Courtly love in literature, English Love poetry, English poetry, History, Manuscripts, English (Middle), Medieval Manuscripts, Textual Criticism, Transmission of texts 'Some London women readers and a text of 'The three kings of cologne''
Thomas Hoccleve has written: 'A new Ploughman's tale' -- subject(s): Legends 'Hoccleve's works' -- subject(s): Manuscripts, English (Middle), Friends and associates, Manuscripts, Biography 'A new Ploughman's tale: Thomas Hoceleve's legend of the Virgin and her sleeveless garment' 'Works' 'A facsimile of the autograph verse manuscripts' ''My compleinte' and other poems' 'Poems' 'Thomas Hoccleve's Complaint and Dialogue' -- subject(s): Complaint poetry, English (Middle), Dialogues, English (Middle)
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton has written: 'Iconography and the professional reader' -- subject(s): Appreciation, Authors and readers, Bodleian Library, Book industries and trade, Books and reading, Christian poetry, English (Middle), History, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Illustrations, Manuscripts, Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts
Robert G. Calkins has written: 'Monuments of medieval art' -- subject(s): Art, Medieval, Medieval Art 'Programs of medieval illumination' 'Illuminated books of the Middle Ages' -- subject(s): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts 'Distribution of labor' -- subject(s): Dutch Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic Illumination of books and manuscripts, Group work in art, Hours of Catherine of Cleves, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Dutch, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic, Illuminators, Scriptoria
Peter Brown has written: 'A handlist of manuscripts containing Middle English prose in the Additional Collection (10001-12000), British Library, London' -- subject(s): British Library, Catalogs, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Manuscripts, English (Middle) 'Chaucer and the making of optical space'
Members of monastic organizations copied manuscripts, so they were by far the largest produces of books. They were also the greatest produces of other products, such as medicines.
Manuscripts were read by literate people, of course. What a lot of people don't know is that there were a lot of literate people in the Middle Ages. In fact there were parts of Europe where the majority of people might have been literate, such as the Byzantine Empire, where there was primary education at the village level for boys and girls for the entire time of the Middle Ages.
The median
There are several histories written during the Middle ages that survive, either in the original or as copies. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle survives in several different original copies. Some of the copies of the histories of Bede, though not his original manuscript, date from the Middle Ages. There are a number of copies of Anna Comnena's Alexiad dating from the Middle Ages, and for all we know one of them might be her original manuscript. There are others, including others in the form of medieval manuscripts.