The impact of Scandinavian invaders on the peoples of the Britain and Ireland was incalculable. Raiders on a sometimes large scale, they initially attacked coastal and river settlements, but ended up ...

For centuries, travelers and pilgrims entering Jerusalem from the north and east had gazed upon the monumental tombs cut into the cliffs of the Kidron Valley. T

Just no.

Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda as displayed in 2026 at the Edda Building in Reykjavik, Iceland. This is one of the most famous Icelandic manuscripts, and the source of most poems in the Eddic tradit...

This week, noted ailurophile and Homerist Joel Christensen sings to us about new scholarship helping us to make sense of Homer and highlights a new book on lamentation and glory in the Iliad. Then, re...

for the study of manuscripts and printing history

Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

Early parchment ms. bifolium (written in dark ink in double columns frame ruled in ink with pricking visible in remaining margin and 1 tear sewn up) from a Latin philosophy text used as binder's waste...

Another quiet week, only nine manuscripts were added, and all uploaded on Friday. Most were evenly split between Capp.Sist and Ott.lat, each with four. The final volume was Barb.lat. To the right i...

This article argues that Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant recasts the Arthurian myth of British origins through what I deem a palimpsestic form of medievalism. This process of ‘rubbing and rewriting’...

As a community, the University of Rochester is defined by a deep commitment to Meliora - Ever Better. Embedded in that ideal are the values we share: equity, leadership, integrity, openness, respect, ...

Abstract. This article seeks to address the underexplored role of language as a marker of identity in the early medieval period by focusing on England in t

Homer “This guy gave his job talk in dialects. We need someone who can teach Freshman Greek 100.”