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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.
It's been studied for over a century – and we still have no idea what it says. In this video, we dive into the Voynich Manuscript, the most mysterious book of the Middle Ages. Filled with ...
Over the course of three nights in 1422, the woman had visions of aggressive pets and insatiable worms tormenting a beloved ...
Scholars say handwriting errors in a 900-year-old document changes the understanding of "The Song of Wade", a lost English poem.
A new exhibition in Dublin showcases historic manuscripts written in Irish monasteries. The show also features medieval ...
A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars, including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge ...
A medieval manuscript is offering fresh insight into a centuries-old debate about love. The University of Birmingham and Longleat have launched a joint exhibition re-examining the 15th-century ...
More broadly, the sermon speaks of humility in an unusual fashion, comparing powerful, plundering men to wolves and deceitful ...
It accompanies an exhibit of some thirty diverse illuminated manuscript pages, and in a series of short descriptive essays on each of the miniatures the reader is taken on a remarkable journey from ...