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 ...

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies relies on the talents, scholarship and research of affiliated faculty across Saint Louis University, including faculty in the departments of English, ...

Over the centuries, works of medieval literature have become lost. Today, roughly 68 percent of chivalric and heroic works and just nine percent of individual manuscripts produced in Europe during the ...

Anna Wilson is an Assistant Professor of English. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: In both your scholarly research and your teaching career, you have explored the ...

The works of four major fifteenth-century writers re-examined, showing their innovative reconceptualization of Middle English authorship and the manuscript book. Thomas Hoccleve, Margery Kempe, John ...

It's very likely you've heard of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table – but how many other medieval English heroic or chivalric stories could you name? If the answer is none, you've now got ...

Buckle with embossed head in profile, 400-600. Byzantium, early Byzantine period, 5th-6th century. Gold, lapis lazuli, and glass. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1948.23. Public ...

Professor of English and Medieval Literature Dr. Dorsey Armstrong answers your questions about the Middle Ages from Twitter. Why is it called the "Middle" Ages? What activities did people do for fun?

You’re reading The Alcove, an interview series with artists and scholars affiliated with Duke University, including students, faculty and alumni in the arts and humanities. Inspired by the style and ...

Image credit: "Adoration of the Magi," Gondarine sensul, Ethiopian, late seventeenth century. Baltimore, The Walters Gallery, Walters Manuscript 36.10, fol. 2r. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Challenging the ...