Although the first few months of 2025 for me have been packed with busy schedules and piling assignments, I always try to ...

Less than 40 copies of the Arthurian story Suite Vulgate du Merlin are known to exist. One was just found, binding together ...

Simon Armitage has said he is “excited” to receive the freedom of the City of London, despite being a northerner all his life ...

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

Simon Armitage has said he is “excited” to receive the freedom of the City of London, despite being a northerner all his life ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Pearl-Manuscript, a 14th-century volume containing "Pearl," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and two other poems, is a meticulously crafted work of art ...

Professor Arthur Bahr found that along with the tale “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” the poetry-filled book features plenty of additional aspects far beyond merely words on a page.

The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...

By Alan Yuhas Torn, folded and stitched, rare tales of Merlin shapeshifting into King Arthur’s court and Sir Gawain gaining power from the sun were bound into a book of property records from the ...

The Green Knight's wife visits Sir Gawain in secret, in an illustration from the Pearl manuscript. Credit: British Library / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Although Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ...