Watching Butler play the titular hero here is an inspired precursor to his work on 300.Of course, his Beowulf and Leonidas are nothing like one another, but a comparison can be drawn because of ...

Mary and Irina open Medieval Beginnings, their new series of Close Readings podcasts, with Beowulf, a tale of monsters and heroes that is also a complex collection of interwoven stories about war and ...

The Epic Enigma of Beowulf: Riddling the Grendel Episode, A Performance . Posted by Kylie Owens for International Congress on Medieval Studies . Chris Vinsonhaler brings the gift of the bard to create ...

Meets: MWF 11:15 - 12:05. The popularity of George RR Martin's fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire and its Emmy-winning HBO adaptation Game of Thrones shows us that major themes from medieval stories ...

The final two events of the “Beowulf” series will take place on Feb. 9 and Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. in the Terrace Room of Margaret Jacks Hall, with talks about medieval music by Elaine Treharne and ...

Having heard that a naked Angelina Jolie plays Grendel's beast-mom, you've guessed that the semi-animated 3-D Beowulf is not a totally faithful rendition of the 3,138-line epic poem you struggled ...

Today's episode features interviews with two authors who are very invested in the English language. First, NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Hana Videen about her new book, The Wordhord, which ...