This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

Woman with an open book and a king on horseback, illustrated in MS Burney 275, f.120 (1309-16) (via British Library). The image illustrates “The Trust That I Have In You” 15th-century song on the ...

As time goes on, the “Middle Ages” is exposed as an inadequate name for the period in history that it purports to describe. As with other labels, such as “the Enlightenment” and “the age of Reason,” ...

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WE owe to an American professor what is probably the best extant account of the Middle Ages as a whole, in English and in moderate compass. Prof. Westfall Thompson was a pupil of Luchaire in Paris, ...

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Europe spent 1000 years in its Middle Ages after Rome fell and rebounded Around A.D. 1000. After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of ...