The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster narrates a debate between the forces of avarice (Winner) and generosity (Waster); it ranges...
How was time experienced in the Middle Ages? What attitudes informed people's awareness of its passing - especially when tensions between eternity and...
Translations of French romances into other vernaculars in the Middle Ages have sometimes been viewed as "less important" versions of prestigious...
Of fundamental importance for any discipline dealing with past societies and cultures. One of the most wide-ranging, sophisticated and imaginative...
New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle...
Researchers working in Africa are engaged in ethical, methodological, logistical, emotional and professional compromises. Juggling the demands of...
Once upon a time (or more specifically, in 1911!) there was an artist named Wassily Kandinsky who created the world's first abstract artwork and...
Sarah Kay is one of the most influential medievalists of the past fifty years, making vital, theoretically informed interventions on material from...
In medieval French literature, faces feature heavily as markers of identity, mood, class, status, and even humanity. The information that they convey...
The 2012 coup d'état in Mali, and the political destabilization that followed, brought an abrupt end to the country's success story as a "donor...