The Old English poem will be turned into a 13-part epic drama Wikimedia Commons The heroic medieval epic of Beowulf is to be turned into a 13-part ITV drama. The poem contains 3,182 lines written in ...

In the video above, Brantley Bryant, associate professor of medieval literature at Sonoma State University, shares what he and others in his field see of the Canterbury Tales, Le Morte d’Arthur and ...

On the top floor of Margaret Jacks Hall, the Stanford English Department performed a sly act of transformation on Thursday: It turned a conference room into a mead hall. What appeared initially to be ...

A copy of the medieval epic poem “Beowulf” was returned to the Sewickley Public Library in Pennsylvania recently, 54 years after it was checked out. The book, a translation of old English done by ...

JRR Tolkien's 1926 translation will be accompanied by his previously unpublished short story Sellic Spell Wikimedia Commons JRR Tolkien's translation of Beowulf, the longest epic poem in Old English ...

BERKELEY — “Please turn off all phones, or risk the vengeance of Grendel’s claw.” So the audience was warned Tuesday at Zellerbach Playhouse, where Benjamin Bagby — medievalist, musician and ...

Historically informed performance—the practice of reviving older styles of music through the close examination of their social context, as well as surviving manuscript scores—has been the norm in ...