Roughly 700 years ago, a French-language sequel to the legend of King Arthur known as the Suite Vulgate du Merlin became a ...
Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...
A medieval scribe copied stories about a knight and a wizard into a manuscript around 750 years ago. The knight […] ...
It was first thought to be a 14th century story about Sir Gawain but further examination revealed it to be part of the Old ...
For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register.
In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered ...
Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...
Saxon invasions terrorized the population ... a retired medievalist at University of Manchester and the author of 2018’s King Arthur: The Making of the Legend, says the evidence is hardly ...
The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...
A lost 800-year-old Merlin and King Arthur manuscript was found in the 16th-century book and studied using advanced imaging ...
One of the great “lost causes” of history is the fall and destruction of Romano-Celtic Britain after the death of Arthur – a tale up there with ... the Icknield Way. The Saxons erected a series of ...
Arthur was then said to have been crowned as King in the ruins of the Roman fort at Caerleon in Wales. In another version of the story, King Ambrosius Aurelianus led a battle against the Saxons at ...