Medieval Historian Eleanor Janega takes a deep dive into the historical accuracy of Monty Python's Legendary 'The Holy Grail' ...

From Friday 11 to Sunday 13 July 2025, the historic heart of La Nucia will once again be transformed into a bustling medieval ...

When I finally sat down and read through these medieval poets—Marcabru, Countess of Dia, Arnaut Daniel—I realized that unlike most of the writing from the Middle Ages, these love songs can be secular ...

In “The Mays of Ventadorn,” Merwin pays lavish tribute to the 12th century troubadours and the regions that have meant so much to him during his career, starting with that day in the 1950s ...

When I stepped into the room where medieval troubadours sang to Eleanor of Aquitaine in Poitiers, my first impulse was to shout. About 160 feet in length, the soaring stone space is capped by a ...

Unlike Franciso Pizarro and the conquistadors of old, Gullien says he wasn’t in Peru looking for silver, but instead visited as part of a trip by his tuna, the Spanish term for a university music club ...

As “Fifty Shades of Grey” shows us, notions of enslavement have been tied to romantic songs for centuries—from medieval troubadours to Rihanna.

Tannhäuser snubs uptight social mores of the medieval troubadours and ventures off to the mystical libido-liberating realm of the goddess Venus, who lords over an eternal love-in.