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

There’s something about winter that automatically puts the brain in medieval mode. Maybe it’s the Game of Thrones conditioning (“winter is coming,” etc.). Maybe it’s the constant consumption of soup ...

These real medieval castles will transport you to a world filled with knights and princesses, legendary lore and inspiration for your daydreams Castles conjure up images of a romantic medieval past, ...

Rare is a videogame that doesn't feature at least one sword, suit of armor, or roast chicken. Still, they're usually mixed in with bearded hermits slinging magic fireballs, which we're reliably ...

Donors are crucial to our ability to fund a wide range of programs and initiatives in medieval and renaissance studies. Gifts to the Crusades Studies Forum support scholarly lectures and the ...

A half-man, half-bird beast playing a flute. A cat’s head popping out of a snail shell. A woman barfing up a tiny demon. These are just some of the otherworldly critters that scribes in the Middle ...

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

Interior of a Doctor's House - from reproduction of a miniature from 'Epistre de Othea' by Christine de Pisan, c. 1430. In recent years, the quest for eternal life has become big business, as a ...

A freelance writer on Game Rant with three years of experience writing academic essays and fantasy stories, including the Encyclopaedia Marix and Fear of the Dead. The former is an encyclopaedia ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval scribes ...

Science coexists with society. Science shapes society, informs society, enables society to function in ways not possible without an in-depth knowledge of how the natural world works. But you can flip ...

Daniel M. Lavery cofounded and co-edited the site The Toast and is the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyre, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, Something That May Shock ...