A hobbyist using a metal detector in Brandenburg discovered a cross featuring Jesus inside a wheel that dates back roughly ...

For generations, a misidentified medieval manuscript was hidden in a 474-year-old English boarding school’s library. After a ...

In medieval times, balladeers traveled from town to town, turning stories of love, loss, and everyday life into music people ...

World War II led C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien to infuse their early experiments in fantasy with a sense of moral urgency.

As a never-ending source of inspiration, the Middle Ages has been an indelible presence in many societies for centuries. Its rich history has captured creative minds who have re-told medieval ...

"Universities don’t crumble overnight. They hollow out. First, our funding disappears. Then our graduate students begin to ...

A "priceless" manuscript held in a school library has been confirmed as the only surviving complete version of a work by an ...

The book is Emendatio vitae —The Emending of Life—written in the 14th century by Richard Rolle, a Yorkshire hermit and mystic ...

In a study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Dr. Ellery Frahm and his colleagues analyzed two ...

The news is bleak, the nights are long. Yet somehow... the calendar is still stacked. January is when culture gets weird in the best way; this week, medieval manuscripts emerge from the vault, and ...

Scholars say the discovery offers valuable new insight into the development of medieval Christian thought and the wider landscape of English literary culture. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription ...

Jack Wallace explores books as both literature and artifacts. Now he’ll take his interests to the United Kingdom. Wallace, of Winchester, was selected Dec. 9 as the University of Virginia’s 18th ...