In the end, the key to answering a 130-year-old literary mystery was bad handwriting. Back in the 1890s, MR James, a University of Cambridge medievalist best known for penning ghost stories, made a ...
Peterhouse MS 255, the manuscript containing the passage about Wade. King Arthur, Sir Gawain, and plenty of other chivalric characters are still well known in today's culture. But one hero is a huge ...