A "priceless" manuscript held in a school library has been confirmed as the only surviving complete version of a work by an ...

Thirteenth-century manuscript fragments discovered by chance at a library in Bristol, England, have revealed an alternative version of the story of Merlin, the famed wizard of Arthurian legend. A team ...

This post was updated Nov. 17 at 8:52 p.m. With elves, giants and magic, the Medieval Texts Reading Group builds community one whimsical text at a time. Revived this quarter after a hiatus due to the ...

A page from a 15th-century medieval manuscript turns out to contain hidden text that is only visible under UV light. The discovery is due to the efforts of a team of undergraduate students at ...

England's proud maritime history credits Alfred the Great as having established the Royal Navy but evidence from a medieval text show this popularly held belief to be false. Alfred the Great, King of ...

At the University of Nottingham in Britain, researchers have rediscovered an ancient medicinal elixir that appears to fight a very modern scourge: a deadly drug-resistant bacterial infection rampant ...

A British researcher published a paper this week claiming to have cracked the code of the Voynich manuscript, the mysterious medieval text written in an unknown language whose meaning has baffled ...

The story of the Black Death has always been a mix of science, memory, and myth, but historians now argue that one misread medieval text quietly warped that story for centuries. By untangling a ...

My personal favorite is this. At the top of a page of angular medieval text – full of theological extrapolations and religious devotion – is a cartoon of a deadpan dog. “It’s amazing to think that ...