This post was updated Nov. 17 at 8:52 p.m. With elves, giants and magic, the Medieval Texts Reading Group builds community one whimsical text at a time. Revived this quarter after a hiatus due to the ...

The story of the Black Death has always been a mix of science, memory, and myth, but historians now argue that one misread medieval text quietly warped that story for centuries. By untangling a ...

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