From Shakespeare and the Princess Bride to Robin Hood and Monty Python, these are the best medieval movies of all time.

A new project at the University of Pennsylvania uses the ancient Jedi texts from the Star Wars series to help us think a bit more about books, their meaning, and the European Middle Ages.

Installation view of The Fantasy of the Middle Ages at the Getty Center. Pictured: “Dragon in Bestiary” (c. 1270), “Sinbad the Sailor” In One Thousand and One Nights (Egypt, 1700s), and ...