Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Latest Research on the Black Death
Games and Quizzes
Professor Chats
Medieval History, Heroes, and Legends
Professor Dorsey Armstrong, Associate Professor of English and Medieval Literature at Purdue University, discusses medieval history, literature on the time period’s legends and heroes and offers insight into life during the Middle Ages. […]
British Literature
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Dense Forest of Symbols
By Dorsey Armstrong, PhD, Purdue University An anonymous poem of 2,530 lines, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, survives in a single manuscript containing three other Middle […]
Arts
The Intersection of Screenwriting and the Legend of King Arthur – The Torch Podcast
In this episode of The Torch, an expert in the Arthurian Legend and a screenwriter discuss the intersection of page and screen as well as the amazing narrative and cathartic possibilities a good story has to offer.