Falconry, fashion and fighting with swords transported thousands of visitors on the University of Leeds campus to the Middle ...

Falconry, fashion and fighting with swords took thousands of visitors to the University of Leeds back to the Middle Ages.This year's largest academic ...

Treasures of a time when boundaries blurred between sport theater and spectacle are on view at Houghton Library.

Scholars have decoded a medieval manuscript linked to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, solving a 130-year-old literary mystery.

A medieval sermon packed with 'memes' and simple spelling mistakes could explain a baffling line in 'The Canterbury Tales.' ...

A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars, including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge ...

Scholars say handwriting errors in a 900-year-old document changes the understanding of "The Song of Wade", a lost English poem.

After baffling scholars for over a century, Cambridge researchers have reinterpreted the long-lost Song of Wade, revealing it ...

More broadly, the sermon speaks of humility in an unusual fashion, comparing powerful, plundering men to wolves and deceitful ...

The medieval hero known as Wade was thought to have encountered elves in his adventures. But they might have wolves instead.

Scholars have been left puzzled for 130 years by a medieval literary mystery - but now, two experts believe they have finally solved it. In the Middle Ages, the Song of Wade was a widely-known folk ...