A rare copy of Caedmon’s Hymn is visible in the five lines above the final line of a page from an 8th-century manuscript copy of the Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Image credit: AP) The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marvelling at a medieval book tracked down in a […]
A quiet moment inside a digital archive search has led to something that experts are calling a major literary breakthrough. Researchers studying a medieval manuscript in Rome reportedly stumbled upon what appears to be the oldest surviving English poem. The discovery was not made during an excavation or field study, but through digitised pages viewed […]
In a significant moment that underscores his impact as a modern political commentator, Hasan Piker, better known as HasanAbi, has been selected to receive the prestigious Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage from Trinity College Dublin’s University Philosophical Society. The Phil, one of the world’s oldest and most esteemed student debating societies, recognizes influential thinkers and […]
