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Robert Bartlett on a Vital Work of the Western Canon That Barely Survived Multiple Disasters

By Robert Bartlett | October 10, 2025

What Medieval Poets Can Teach Us About Climate Change, and What Evangelicals Today Get Wrong

What Medieval Poets Can Teach Us About Climate Change, and What Evangelicals Today Get Wrong

Eleanor Johnson on How Medieval Christian Writers Accepted Ecological Collapse

By Eleanor Johnson | April 22, 2024

A researcher found an old medieval manuscript and it's pretty funny.

A researcher found an old medieval manuscript and it's pretty funny.

By Janet Manley | July 19, 2023

A Plethora of Penises: How People Wrote About Sex in the Middle Ages

A Plethora of Penises: How People Wrote About Sex in the Middle Ages

Katherine Harvey on Erotic Expressions in Medieval Literature

By Katherine Harvey | November 17, 2022

How much lost medieval literature is there? A wildlife-tracking method may have the answer.

How much lost medieval literature is there? A wildlife-tracking method may have the answer.

By Walker Caplan | February 18, 2022

Five Medieval Tales That Should Immediately Be Made Into Movies

Five Medieval Tales That Should Immediately Be Made Into Movies

Preferably with Oscar Isaac, Please

By Matthew Gabriele and David Perry | December 15, 2021

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Early Medieval English literature was a sordid swamp of wanton plagiarism!

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