Where Butterfield is asking students to expanding their notion of what counts as “English” literature during the Middle Ages, Hodgkin will challenge his class to transgress all the boundaries placed ...

Wet nurses were used throughout the Middle Ages by some elite ... humble clothing and headdress signal her class as a worker. Such images show that medieval health care involved many tools ...

Subjects that are now typically separated into different academic disciplines were rarely separated in the Middle Ages; medieval studies brings these subjects together in a natural, multidisciplinary ...

and styles in Medieval art,” she said. Her fascination with the art of the Middle Ages was sparked by an art history class she attended while working on her statistician’s degree.

Rollins College echoed with the sounds of swords, lances and court jesters Thursday as members of a “Dungeons and Dragons” class went medieval on campus. The class, which focuses on how the ...

Medieval Institute Publications played a founding role in setting up a series of affordable classroom texts with TEAMS. Originally focused on making available accessible editions of Middle English ...

But while elite medieval women were discouraged from expressing their feelings in daily life, their letters are a rich source of information about their emotions. Many upper-class women were ...