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

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

Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade.

Falk and Wade have also translated nikeres as “sea-snakes” instead of “sprites.” In Old and Middle English, the term was used ...

Rapunzel doesn’t have anything on this damsel in distress. A British scholar who spent seven hours trapped inside a medieval tower freed herself Thursday using just an eyeliner pen and a cotton ...

Dr. Elina Gertsman (Photo courtesy of Daniel Wolf Carroll) KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A medieval art historian has won Western Michigan University's Otto Gründler Book Prize for her book on the study of ...

The "Shulchan Arukh" Orach Chayim. Serves 4. Prep Time: 15 minutes Shulchan Arukh Orach Chayim 455:6: “[Regarding] kneading with caraway, sesame and other types of seasonings, it’s kosher [for the ...

In medieval Europe, a rivalry between two assertive cultures — Christians and Jews, who both considered themselves “God’s Chosen People” — gave rise to modern antisemitism, argues Yale’s Ivan G.