Lesser known than some other beloved tales of larger-than-life heroes such as Gilgamesh, Beowulf and King Arthur, the Song of Wade is a case study in what happens when stories aren’t written down. The ...

About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life survived, and no historian had reason to wonder who she was. But when ...

James Wade is an associate professor of English at the University of Cambridge (University of Cambridge). (CN) — If you take Richard Heege at his word, then the reason so few minstrel tales survived ...

A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, with a probable total exceeding ...

To “doodle” means to draw or scrawl aimlessly, and the history of the word goes back to the early 20th century. Scribbling haphazard words, squiggly lines and mini-drawings, however, is a much older ...

When researchers at the British Museum first subjected the faded black pigment to scientific scrutiny in 1967, they were struck by how different it seemed from most medieval inks. Medieval iron-gall ...

Every book was a laborious project during the Middle Ages. And according to a first-of-its-kind quantitative review, more than a few of them were penned by women. Experts estimate medieval scribes ...

FAIRBANKS — "May you live in interesting times,” is a particularly nasty Chinese curse, and while librarians adore intellectual stimulation, sometimes even we think enough is enough. There is Zhang ...

WASHINGTON — About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life survived, and no historian had reason to wonder who she was.

WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life survived, and no historian had reason to wonder who she ...