Part of a series known as the Lancelot-Grail cycle, the Arthurian romance was popular among aristocrats and royalty, said Dr. Irène Fabry-Tehranchi, French specialist in collections and academic ...

Variations on the classic Merlin and King Arthur ... less than 40 copies are known to exist of a once-popular sequel series, ... Oldest known English book on cheese advises against drinking ...

King Arthur is dead. What now? With this question, Lev Grossman’s new novel, “The Bright Sword,” joins 1,400 years of storytelling and resoundingly earns its place among the best of ...

Like White, he uses humor liberally and masterfully (the book’s epigraph is from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”). ... A Novel of King Arthur. By Lev Grossman. Viking. 675 pp. $35.

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King Arthur and Merlin, with its preservation considered a miracle.

It’s been 1,500 years since King Arthur supposedly lived and vanquished his enemies; one would think that by now every possible version of that narrative has been told. “The Bright Sword ...

CAMBRIDGE, England (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A rare sequel to the legendary tale of Merlin and King Arthur was found on a medieval manuscript that had been stitched together and repurposed as a book ...

Lost manuscript telling the story of King Arthur and Merlin the Magician is read for the first time in 700 YEARS - after centuries hidden inside another book ...

It is based on the first book of T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, focusing on the education of the young Arthur at the hands of the irascible wizard Merlin.

The manuscript, handwritten by a medieval scribe in Old French, served as the sequel to the legend of King Arthur. There are just over three dozen surviving copies of the sequel today.

The manuscript, handwritten by a medieval scribe in Old French, served as the sequel to the legend of King Arthur. There are just over three dozen surviving copies of the sequel today.