Robert Brentano, 76, a scholar and author on medieval English and Italian history who taught at UC Berkeley for half a century, died Thursday at Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley after an ...

Each May, some 3,000 people descend on Kalamazoo, Mich., for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, which brings together academics and enthusiasts for four days of scholarly panels ...

This post was updated Sept. 21 at 1:17 p.m. For many medieval and early Renaissance scholars, manuscripts serve as the gospel for research and learning. Tomislav Matic, a visiting scholar at UCLA ...

Karl Marx -- or the filmmaker Luis Buñuel -- would have found just as much to scoff at in 15th- and 16th-century Burgundy as in the modern world. It was then that, here as in other parts of ...

Professor Broun, Professor of Scottish History, said, "A close reading of work by medieval Scottish historians and scholars shows they firmly believed that Scottish independence was entirely ...

Sotheby’s announced that it will auction the illuminated Shem Tov Bible, a sacred medieval manuscript, in September. According to Sotheby’s, the Bible manuscript was written in 1312 by ...

When Robert Chazan was studying toward his Ph.D. from Columbia University in the mid-1960s, few major American universities were offering positions to Jewish studies scholars.

With an economic recession, lengthy overseas wars and a run of natural disasters hitting the U.S. and other lands, these are trying times. Yet scholars visiting Bates for the Medieval Miseries: ...