Dozens of unique, centuries-old manuscripts have gone on display, showcasing medieval ideas of how to cure disease and live a ...

For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register.

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

Testimony in one 15 th -century manuscript records how a friar at Stamford was cured of his nosebleeds by dipping his testicles into cold water and vinegar. Another records the apparently successful ...

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

Cambridge has been accused of pandering to “mad Americans” after its University Press removed the term Anglo-Saxon from a world-leading medieval journal. The Cambridge University Press ...

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

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

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

Cambridge University aims to reassert the rightful place in history of Saint Mary of Egypt as a role model for medieval English Christians. Cambridge University scholar Alexandra Zhirnova prepares ...