Medium Ævum, which first appeared in 1932, is one of the leading international academic periodicals in medieval studies. It is published twice yearly and its present editors are Professors Nigel F.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information JEGP focuses on Northern European cultures of the Middle Ages, covering Medieval English, Germanic, and Celtic Studies. The word ...

On the top floor of Margaret Jacks Hall, the Stanford English Department performed a sly act of transformation on Thursday: It turned a conference room into a mead hall. What appeared initially to be ...

That most famous opening word, at once an exclamation and command, of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem known as “Beowulf,” has captured our attention and imagination for centuries. And why not? How could ...

Over a thousand years ago, a writer (or writers) penned an epic poem about a warrior named Beowulf who must defeat an evil monster (the story is replete with power struggles, lots of killing and, yes, ...

Beowulf, of precarious provenance—the single surviving, crumbling manuscript bears the scorch marks of an 18th-century library fire—has traveled across a thousand years to lodge in our imagination ...

Lesser known than some other beloved tales of larger-than-life heroes such as Gilgamesh, Beowulf and King Arthur, the Song of Wade is a case study in what happens when stories aren’t written down. The ...

Long before hobbits, orcs and multimillion-dollar digital effects, people gathered around flickering lights to experience long tales about heroes, monsters and kings. The text of “Beowulf,” written ...

TORONTO — Scottish thesp Gerard Butler has signed to play the lead in the Canada/U.K./Iceland co-production “Beowulf & Grendel.” Butler (“Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life,” “Timeline”) has ...

"Even monsters have a mother," says the cursed Danish king in Ubisoft's new Beowulf: The Game. But unlike monsters, video games have many mothers, and we don't mean just their dev teams. Take Beowulf, ...