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), ...

Michael Curschmann, a professor of Germanic languages and literatures, emeritus, at Princeton University, died Oct. 7 at his home in Princeton. He was 81. Curschmann's wide-ranging scholarship on ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stephanie Edwards is the marketing coordinator at Discover Magazine, who manages all social media platforms and writes digital articles that focus on archaeology, the environment, and public health.

Lucy Owens is a Texas-based screenwriter and filmmaker whose work has been recognized at prestigious festivals like Slamdance and the Austin Film Festival. She is a co-founder of the independent ...

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 ...