A new study shows how a medieval text was misread as history, shaping how the Black Death’s spread was understood for ...

This post was updated Nov. 17 at 8:52 p.m. With elves, giants and magic, the Medieval Texts Reading Group builds community one whimsical text at a time. Revived this quarter after a hiatus due to the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the mid-16th century, a bookbinder picked up a piece of parchment — one that was already ...

Ghostly faces and lines of verse previously invisible to the naked eye have been uncovered in the oldest surviving medieval manuscript written entirely in Welsh. "The Black Book of Carmarthen," dating ...

England's proud maritime history credits Alfred the Great as having established the Royal Navy but evidence from a medieval text show this popularly held belief to be false. Alfred the Great, King of ...

The famous Irish king, Brian Boru, is widely credited with defeating the Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf more than 1,000 years ago. But not everyone heaps praise on the king. For the past 300 years, ...

My personal favorite is this. At the top of a page of angular medieval text – full of theological extrapolations and religious devotion – is a cartoon of a deadpan dog. “It’s amazing to think that ...

Vox Dulcis Chorale will present a concert of medieval choral music as well as contemporary compositions based on medieval text on Saturday. Some of the songs evoke the mystery of the Middle Ages, such ...

Communicating with hand signs has a long history. Researcher Jude Seal examines the evidence for signing in Medieval Europe ...

The Lylye of Medicynes is a 15th-century manuscript residing in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England. It is a Middle English translation of an earlier Latin treatise on disease, containing case ...

At the University of Nottingham in Britain, researchers have rediscovered an ancient medicinal elixir that appears to fight a very modern scourge: a deadly drug-resistant bacterial infection rampant ...

At the University of Nottingham in Britain, researchers have rediscovered an ancient medicinal elixir that appears to fight a very modern scourge: a deadly drug-resistant bacterial infection rampant ...