When I was at university, I studied archaeology. Archaeology is the study of the physical past. Archaeologists dig. They might find the edge of a pot or a bone and then slowly brush away the dirt and ...

George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation Vanessa Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative.

While Nobel Prize winner Heaney's translation was sprinkled with numerous Hiberno-English terms throughout its lines (such as "bawn" and "bothie"), it may be said that the alliterative verse of the ...

No, a simple jab of the knife cannot kill a tree. A tree takes many years to grow to its full size by absorbing sunlight, air and water. The roots of the tree grow deep and hold it firmly in the soil.

The Northland may refer to any extremely cold country in the Earth's north polar region. Saint Peter asked the old lady for one of her baked cakes. The lady tried to bake a small cake for the saint.

This summer’s best film was conceived nearly seven centuries ago. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an epic Middle English poem from the 14th century, written by an unknown author. It follows Sir ...

Debate over whether poem was written by multiple authors or one has raged for years Beowulf, the epic poem of derring-do and monsters, was composed by a single author, research suggests, pouring cold ...