The poem involves a woman who is having a debate with her apparently opinionated vulva about which of the two is more attractive to men. Reading time 3 minutes The surprising discovery of a fragment ...

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 ...

Fragments from a sexed-up medieval poem, which researchers are calling the “50 Shades of Grey” of its day, were just rediscovered after more than 700 years. The manuscript pages dating from sometime ...

Emma's Adventures was a monthly column created for Eurogamer Supporters that ran throughout 2023. In it, Emma Kent explored online virtual worlds in a way that's become uniquely her own - usually ...

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 ...

Simon Armitage has translated a number of medieval poems into modern English, including “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” “The Death of King Arthur” (an anonymous work, not Malory’s long prose ...

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 ...

When trailers for The Green Knight first hit the internet back in early 2020, the reaction was immediate--the combination of director David Lowery's signature aesthetic sensibility and star Dev ...