A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars, including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge ...

Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late 19th ...

The Teutonic Knights were a German religious order of crusaders who operated in eastern Europe in the 1000s. Similar to the ...

In July, the southern German city of Ulm transforms its river into a dramatic stage where costumed jousters in boats vie for ...

In the jousting portion, competitors ride toward each other with a wood railing separating them, and aim their lances not to ...

Knight October Benedetti and horse Cataline clash with Ian Darvill atop Merlin in a full-contact jousting demonstration at the High River Medieval Faire on Saturday, June 28, 2025. The knights were ...

The final resting place of the cup of Christ is the ‘holy grail’ of religious tourism. But hundreds of sites claiming to be ...

Okay, it might be a stretch — but if the behind-the-scenes revelations in Lance Oppenheim’s “Ren Faire” are any indication, there’s way more going on beneath the surface of any festival ...