Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

Less than 40 copies of the Arthurian story Suite Vulgate du Merlin are known to exist. One was just found, binding together ...

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), archivists have finally been able to peer inside the obscured texts—without ever ...

The Saxons — people from modern-day Scandinavia ... This Arthur was played by Clive Owen in the 2004 film, “King Arthur,” ...

Roughly 700 years ago, a French-language sequel to the legend of King Arthur known as the Suite Vulgate du Merlin became a "medieval best seller." Its first half tells the story of how Sir Gawain, ...

In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered new stories about him.

Arthur was then said to have been crowned as King in the ruins of the Roman fort at Caerleon in Wales. In another version of the story, King Ambrosius Aurelianus led a battle against the Saxons at ...

A fragment of manuscript found in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register was actually a famed King Arthur ...

Saxon invasions terrorized the population ... a retired medievalist at University of Manchester and the author of 2018’s King Arthur: The Making of the Legend, says the evidence is hardly ...

The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...

Arthur has been depicted as a legendary Briton ... The fragile document even contains small errors – such as calling the Saxon king Dodalis "Dorilas" – but those errors will only help ...