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 ...

Medievalists often claim that the twelfth century “invented love.” At this moment, which also witnessed the birth of vernacular literature (literature written not in Latin but in romance languages), ...

The study tracked Medieval narrative tales, not religious texts. Lavishly illustrated German manuscript containing the Arthurian romance of Wigalois, Ltk 537, f. 71v-72r (University Library, Leiden, ...

Lesser known than some other beloved tales of larger-than-life heroes such as Gilgamesh, Beowulf and King Arthur, the Song of Wade is a case study in what happens when stories aren’t written down. The ...

To tackle a problem for scholars who study past cultures – the way numerous artefacts that would inform the cultural diversity of a time have been lost – researchers borrowed an “unseen species” model ...

She studies medieval literature, yet her research is as relevant today as ever. Cal State Fullerton professor Elise Wang is one of 28 scholars across the country selected for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie ...

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 ...

Kyambogo University to host project on perspectives on both Ugandan and medieval literature When the late Ugandan scholar Pio Zirimu coined the term orature to describe the oral literary tradition of ...

Vol. 14, No. 6, Indigenous vs. Foreign: Early-Modern Materia Medica in Comparative Perspective (2009), pp. 711-736 (26 pages) This article argues that balm, or balsam, was, by the late medieval period ...

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Medieval Christianity holds up a helpful mirror to the contemporary church. In recent decades, evangelicals studying faith in the Middle Ages have done much to recover its variety and richness. Yet a ...

She studies medieval literature, yet her research is as relevant today as ever. Cal State Fullerton professor Elise Wang is one of 28 scholars across the country selected for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie ...