Analysis: Satire had an important social function in medieval Ireland and poet Conchobhar Ruadh Mac Con Midhe knew how to use it Gaelic Ireland in the late medieval period was ruled by a number of ...

Fabian Alfie studies Italian and Medieval Italian literature at the University of Arizona, and he’s particularly interested ...

This study proposes a fresh look at the complex roles played by the Earthly Paradise in three medieval French poems: Marie de France’s The Purgatory of St. Patrick, Benedeit’s Voyage of Saint Brendan ...

Both poets were recognized in their own time as chivalrous advocates for human rights. And in tandem, they seem to have ...

An MIT professor discovered that the Pearl Manuscript from the 1300s has more to it than just four unconnected medieval poems. Professor Arthur Bahr found that along with the tale “Sir Gawain an ...

His research focuses on how medieval vernacular poetry shaped the reception of ancient medical thought, particularly that of Aristotle and Galen, through poetic images conceptualizing the physical ...

The poets under consideration in this volume demand that readers grapple with the ways in which we are still “medieval” – in other words, the ways in which the questions posed by their medieval source ...

Studies works of early medieval (ca. 200-600 AD) poetry. Writers and topics vary ranging from surveys of specific genre, shi or fu, or shared subject such as religious or commenmorative verse, or ...

The life and times of a woman who has a significant place in the history of an Oxfordshire village will be celebrated next ...