The Season 7 premiere of 'Game of Thrones' made it abundantly clear why real libraries of the Middle Ages put chains on their books That detail is one that medieval-history buffs will recognize as ...

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

Although we know that the Star Wars universe takes place "a long time ago," the way that scholars have tended to think about that world has instead focused on the "far, far away" part of that famous ...

In his new book, “Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages,” the British art historian Jack Hartnell looks back at views on medicine in the Middle Ages. “It’s a mistake to cast the Middle ...