The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

Donkeys are friendly animals: intelligent and patient, they have been used for millennia to transport the widest variety of ...

Pull up a chair, fellow A Song of Ice and Fire fan, because today we're going deep into the history of George R.R. Martin's ...

A new kind of kingdom needed a new kind of queen. The millennium-old and largely forgotten Mathilda of Flanders is being ...

Few individuals in church history have straddled the fault line between insider and outsider quite so capably as Francis of ...

Testimony in one 15 th -century manuscript records how a friar at Stamford was cured of his nosebleeds by dipping his testicles into cold water and vinegar. Another records the apparently successful ...

The people of Surrey will have the chance to get as closer to history without actually time travelling at Elmbridge Museum ...

A rare 13th-century manuscript fragment containing medieval stories of Merlin and King Arthur has been 'virtually unrolled' ...

For over 400 years, this fragile remnant of a celebrated medieval story lay undisturbed and unnoticed, repurposed as a book cover by Elizabethans ... understanding of the history of the item ...

The medieval genre has always been the most fun and fulfilling when it comes to a good video game. Maybe it’s something to do ...

For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names becase capital letters were stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while ...