Chris Pine has quietly pulled ahead of competing Chrises with sterling work in everything from gritty dramas to animated ...

In the middle of the 14th century one of the deadliest epidemics in human history struck Europe. It wiped out millions of ...

It turns out the Dark Ages weren't all that dark. According to new research, medieval medicine was way more sophisticated ...

From peach pit salves to lizard shampoos, ancient remedies reveal that medieval folks were surprisingly savvy about wellness, ...

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

Two researchers are proposing a new reading of the Song of Wade, a once widely known epic from the 12th century, thanks to a ...

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 ...

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

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