We medievalists have had a pretty good run in academe. We were admitted in the final third of the 19th century after we proved that our subject was complex (read: science-like) enough to warrant ...

If we look closely at those high middle ages (roughly 1000-1500), we may discover early feminists, sacred sensualists, songwriters of the spheres and holistic medicine practitioners. Wait: didn’t we ...

Attendees listen to a speaker during the 2012 congress. KALAMAZOO — More than 3,000 of the world's leading authorities on the Middle Ages will converge on the Western Michigan University campus in ...

Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei arrived on time for the 9 a.m. keynote lecture at the annual International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, in England. Titled “The Mediterranean Other and the ...

Last month, medieval historians went to war with English Heritage, the charity which manages England’s historical sites. Normally a peaceable bunch, medievalists have taken offence at English Heritage ...

Trying to turn the spectacularly popular show into a means of encouraging future medieval scholars is misguided, writes Richard Utz. You have /3 articles left. Sign ...

There are two sorts of medievalists. To medievalists themselves there are probably far more, but by my reckoning there are essentially two. Actual and neo. The first are scholars who study the history ...

And you thought that the Middle Ages was all about jousting knights and damsels in distress. That’s because you have never attended the medievalists’ congress, the annual first-weekend-in-May ritual ...

Find in Austrian abbey dates poem to 200 years earlier than previously thought It has been called the earliest form of the Vagina Monologues – an argument in verse between a woman and her vulva, ...

Each May, some 3,000 people descend on Kalamazoo, Mich., for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, which brings together academics and enthusiasts for four days of scholarly panels, ...