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 ...

In the video above, Brantley Bryant, associate professor of medieval literature at Sonoma State University, shares what he and others in his field see of the Canterbury Tales, Le Morte d’Arthur and ...

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, ...

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 ...

As a child, Laurel Amtower fell in love with the pageantry and fantasy of renaissance fairs. An avid reader who was partial to the “Chronicles of Narnia” and “The Lord of the Rings” books, she grew up ...

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 ...

Jessica Appleby is hoping that by mixing a little “Game of Thrones” into her fall semester course on medieval epic and romance, she’ll help students engage on a deeper level with thousand-year-old ...