Being a builder in the Middle Ages meant long days, dangerous work, and little recognition. In this episode, we explore what life was really like for the laborers who raised castles, cathedrals, and ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late 19th ...

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