medieval

In the first of a new series of short articles exploring images from around the University, we look at the 12th-century Bury Bible from the Parker...

Jocelin of Furness was one of the most significant writers to emerge from England’s north-west during the Middle Ages, but historians have tended to...

Now mid-way through a year-long 21st-century pilgrimage to the settings of Iceland’s famous medieval Íslendingasögur (‘sagas of Icelanders’), Dr...

Six months after she set forth on an epic tour of Iceland in a Land Rover ambulance on the trail of the country’s medieval sagas, Dr. Emily...

Examples of the world’s oldest science and literature – 2,500-year-old clay writing tablets – hold clues as to how ancient scholars acquired and used...

Art historian Professor Paul Binski describes his ventures into the gold-embellished world of illuminated manuscripts.

Research in the arts and humanities deserves wider recognition for the broad range of palpable contributions it is making to the life of the nation...

Medieval culture pervaded Shakespeare's life and work. Professor Helen Cooper examines its influence on the work of the world's greatest playwright...