Manger scenes displayed at Christmas usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the Gospel of Luke, Mary placed her child in a manger “because there was no room for them in ...

Jack Wallace, UVA’s 18th recipient of the scholarship, says critical thinking and literacy are antidotes for mistrust ...

Helen Fulton examines the case study of the Medieval March of Wales, a vibrant multicultural border region between Wales and ...

In the annals of history, knights have often been depicted as valiant protectors clad in armor, champions of justice wielding ...

Writing of Runnymede, an ancient meadow on the banks of the River Thames, in his 1642 poem Coopers Hill, John Denham casts an ...

The fourteenth-century Icelandic Edwardsaga chronicles the life of Edward the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England (reigned 1042–1066). It also describes how, in the years after the Norman ...

"Yuletide in the medieval period is full of monstrous attacks" - Amelia White breaks down the associations between the monstrous and Christmas in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

In early November, Piper Farmer ’26 wandered around midtown Manhattan, where she'd arrived hours early for a 30-minute ...

Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from artists and architects to prisoners of war. Work in ...

The medieval manuscripts in Bristol have recently been catalogued by Kathleen Kennedy and Melek Kataras in their book Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections, the latest volume in the Centre for ...

Chair in the History of Finance and Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research, Prosperity and Resilience, Henley Business School, University of Reading Adrian R Bell receives funding from UKRI via AHRC.