A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars, including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge scholars now believe the Song of Wade, a long-lost treasure of English ...

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After baffling scholars for over a century, Cambridge researchers have reinterpreted the long-lost Song of Wade, revealing it to be a chivalric romance rather than a monster-filled myth. The twist ...

How an anonymous 13th-century author broke down the courtly ideal to transform the Arthurian legend as a tale of Christian salvation. Sometimes the heart knows things the mind cannot rationally ...

Medieval romances thrived in the Middle Ages, with classics like Le Morte d'Arthur, and endure to this day, with gems like The Once and Future King.

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” the beloved fourteenth-century poem, begins during Christmastime at the court of King Arthur, when a giant man the color of spinach rides into the banquet hall with ...