The show features more than 50 paintings, manuscripts, textiles and other artworks created in Western Europe between the 13th ...

Knights weren't the flawless warriors pop culture keeps selling us. Behind the armor were people with quirks and questionable ...

SURELY nothing in the astonishing scheme of life can have nonplussed Nature so much as the fact that none of the females of any of the species she created really cared very much for the male, as such.

While the country broke out in a rash of Me Too blisters last fall, I cloistered myself away and taught a seminar, Love in the Middle Ages. My students, hip to the headlines, recognized our course ...

Laurie Shepard is an Associate Professor of Italian at Boston College. Her specialty is Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, with a particular focus on lyric poetry, rhetoric, and historical ...