Ovid, poet of love: Many anonymous works written after his death came to be ascribed to him, “whether or not their authors were trying to imitate his style or not,” according to Ralph ...

An MIT professor discovered that the Pearl Manuscript from the 1300s has more to it than just four unconnected medieval poems. Professor Arthur Bahr found that along with the tale “Sir Gawain and the ...

Matthew Coker, visiting assistant professor, is teaching a course on Old Norse II, while William Quinn, Distinguished Professor, is teaching a course on the Middle English Lyric.

Two years ago, MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound ...

A new animated film "The Knight in the Tiger's Skin" by Mirza Davitaia, of GI-Films, will be released in the Laemmle Theater on October 7, 2022. This is the first adaptation of the medieval poem by ...

When a collection of 254 medieval poems, found in 1803 in a German Benedictine monastery, came to the attention of 20th-century composer Carl Orff, he knew he was onto something big. In the mid-1930s, ...