The poem involves a woman who is having a debate with her apparently opinionated vulva about which of the two is more attractive to men. Reading time 3 minutes The surprising discovery of a fragment ...

An MIT professor discovered that the Pearl Manuscript from the 1300s has more to it than just four unconnected medieval poems. Professor Arthur Bahr found that along with the tale “Sir Gawain and the ...

Fragments from a sexed-up medieval poem, which researchers are calling the “50 Shades of Grey” of its day, were just rediscovered after more than 700 years. The manuscript pages dating from sometime ...

Two years ago, MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound ...

The Cheshire-based author follows her Booker Prize-longlisted debut with a deeply affecting novel about a woman on a mission ...

Within 100 years of Iceland’s settlement by Vikings and Celts in the late 9th century, a devastating volcanic event wreaked havoc on the island. In a rare type of eruption known as a lava flood, ...