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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 ...
A man from Australia has been charged with “malicious mischief” for allegedly smashing a glass case holding the Stone of ...
Between Viking warlords and Saxon expansion, Constantine II carved out a kingdom. His reign marked the transformation from ...
Today, King Charles spends one week of the summer at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the sovereign’s only official residence in ...
More than 110 people from Scotland have been named in the King's Birthday Honours list for 2025. It means Scots make up 9% of all recipients this year and it includes politicians, community ...
Evidence of a Scottish man in the Piast paternal line does not necessarily imply a foreign conquest. Dynasties spread by marriages as well as by swords. For example, Świętosława (the sister of the ...
Scotland’s Medieval Revival Is in Full Swing! California closes $12-billion deficit by cutting back immigrants' access to healthcare JM Smucker becomes latest food manufacturer to remove ...
The concept of Britain as Scottish isn’t a distant idea in the minds of medieval scholars. It still exists, it’s still real, and it’s still proving how interconnected we are.
In late medieval Scotland the island of Britain was sometimes seen as fundamentally Scottish. This challenges our modern understanding of British identity and the research suggests that Scottish ...
Boston Baroque’s well-casted and boldly presented “Ariodante” was a musically memorable performance of Handel’s underrated masterpiece.