Knights! Swords! Fighting!
A medieval fencing manual that is still consulted today.
We have all seen sword fights on film, on TV, in games. But what was medieval fencing...
Congratulations to two Yale ladder faculty members recognized for outstanding books on history and empire.
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for...
Unflinching and deeply human—Derek Green perfectly encapsulates the quiet dramas of modern America.
The characters in Jackson State live in a land of contradictions—where...
Less than two years after the publication of her critically acclaimed novel “Inverno,” the poet Cynthia Zarin has written a follow-up to be published in November. Zarin is a...
In tandem with the new exhibit, Yale’s English department is teaching a seminar partially focused on Blake’s literary legacy, titled “Word and Image from William Blake to...
The Significance of Trivial Things by Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Exhibitions and books commemorating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday call attention to the ways in which she transmuted...
What makes a friendship? How do friendships—or marriages—get broken? How are bonds between people formed?
Nancy Yousef finds surprising answers to these questions in Romantic...
