The surprising discovery of a fragment inscribed with an old German poem, in which a female virgin argues with her genitals about who is more desirable to men, pushes the origin of the poem back 200 ...

Simon Armitage has translated a number of medieval poems into modern English, including “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” “The Death of King Arthur” (an anonymous work, not Malory’s long prose ...

Fragments from a sexed-up medieval poem, which researchers are calling the “50 Shades of Grey” of its day, were just rediscovered after more than 700 years. The manuscript pages dating from sometime ...

Two years ago, MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound ...

Ovid, poet of love: Many anonymous works written after his death came to be ascribed to him, “whether or not their authors were trying to imitate his style or not,” according to Ralph ...

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The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program will host Joey McMullen of Indiana University, who will deliver a paper Wednesday titled ...