Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...

The Rustic Mechanicals will present Shakespeare’s classic tragedy "Macbeth" as part of their 2025 Vaulting Ambition Tour. The ...

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Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...

In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered ...

When our standards are flawed, the measure of everything is impacted, including truth, success, freedom, and happiness.

The fragment contains two key episodes, including the only surviving account about Merlin and the early years of Arthur's ...

A new kind of kingdom needed a new kind of queen. The millennium-old and largely forgotten Mathilda of Flanders is being ...

Here's Thomas Cromwell at New York's Frick Collection, trapped in canvas by the Tudor court painter Hans Holbein: thick ...

Much like gender, the space between fantasy and sci-fi is a spectrum. While books like The Lord of the Rings and The ...