In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in a protective outer layer made from the hairy hides of local land mammals, such as deer or boar. But in some instances, they also used ...

VALPARAISO | Valparaiso University's Chinese and Japanese Studies Program will present "Robes and Honor," a program exploring the ceremonial presentation of luxury garments to those honored by a ...

Scholars may have an authentic manuscript of a medieval comedy show — and it's pretty funny The Cambridge historian who identified this 15th-century manuscript compares its humor to Monty Python ...

But medieval scholars say the white supremacists are wrong and the scholars are fighting back. National. Scholars Say White Supremacists Chanting 'Deus Vult' Got History Wrong.

According to Brantley Bryant, an associate professor of medieval literature at Sonoma State University, George R.R. Martin, the author of the fantasy series that inspired the HBO show, “has read ...

True, medieval universities excluded many groups – religious minorities, feudal villeins (a commoner legally tied to a feudal lord in the Middle Ages) and women were barred from entry. Yet poor ...

Fewer, it is likely, will know why wearing a robe and an unusual hat is a symbol of having finished school. ... “With few exceptions, the medieval scholar had taken minor religious orders, ...

, which started Wednesday at Western Michigan University and will continue through Sunday. More than 3,000 scholars of all things Medieval are in Kalamazoo for one of the largest conventions of it ...

Solberg, who fell in love with medieval English poetry while studying at Oxford, said she was inspired to write the article back in 2016: “My honors student Katherine Churchill, to whom this article ...

The works of 14th century Persian poet Hafez are iconic in Iran. Poet and scholar Dick Davis has spent years bringing the medieval writer’s words to the West. Jeffrey Brown talks to Davis about ...

Jerusalem Museum Untangles History of the Color Blue, From Biblical Hue to Ancient Royalty The show inks out the history of the enigmatic sky blue dye known as ‘tekhelet’ ...