English professor digs into “playful and weird” medieval texts and explains how modern communication is medieval Medieval literature is a treasure trove of weird linguistic surprises that defy ...

Founded in 1920 as a focus of Catholic Christian reflection on current events, New Blackfriars publishes articles and book reviews of general interest, with an emphasis on theology, philosophy and ...

The University of Chicago Library acquired a 14th-century manuscript of “Le Roman de la Rose,” or “The Romance of the Rose”—which scholars have referred to as the most popular medieval love poem — ...

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

The Middle English Texts Series (METS) began operations in 1990 with the goal of providing access to the full range of literate output from medieval England, with an emphasis on writings in English, ...

The epic poem “Beowulf” may elicit a shrug of unfamiliarity for some, or required-reading familiarity from high school or college for others. For David Ramon Zayas, however, the first recorded ...

“Bob and wheel” is a literary term applied to the use, in medieval verse, of two metrical schemes (the short “bob” and longer “wheel”) to punctuate the end of a longer stanza. The term “bob and wheel” ...

The poem involves a woman who is having a debate with her apparently opinionated vulva about which of the two is more attractive to men. Reading time 3 minutes The surprising discovery of a fragment ...

I went to college a little bit later than most. Excited but nervous to plunge into a degree — in English literature — that demands all students learn Old English, I asked a friend what studying the ...

From supersized hymn books to an early version of the Táin: Trinity College Dublin public lecture series and digitization project Manuscripts teeming with grotesque beasts, heretical English ...