Famously, the story of English poetry begins with eating words. Bede tells us that Cædmon devoured Christian teaching and Bible stories, and ruminated on them overnight, before converting those storie...

This handbook explores how writers in the Middle ages wrote about key topics in science from the early medieval period to the 15th century.

Famously, the story of English poetry begins with eating words. Bede tells us that Cædmon devoured Christian teaching and Bible stories, and ruminated on them overnight, before converting those storie...

The old work of giants decays. A dragon guards its hoard of treasure. The wanderer locks his thoughts away in an icy heart. A woman longs for her lost wolf. A wife weeps alone within her earth-grave. ...

Beyond Medieval Archives hopes to open the field of medieval studies to more diverse, dynamic and innovative forms of creativity, criticism, publication and collective action in response to the resona...

Can we think creatively as well as critically with fire? What can destructive r...

Lecturer in Medieval Literature

Can we think creatively as well as critically with fire? What can destructive r...