Strangely enough, Chaucer was not particularly known for his poetry when he was alive—even though we now think of him as the go-to poet of medieval England. Instead, what made him popular among h...

It's a shame we don't know this guy's name, because the stuff he wrote is unquestionably awesome. Known now only as the Gawain Poet (or the Pearl Poet, for reasons you'll soon see), our dude was fr...

While you've probably heard of most of the medieval period's heaviest-hitting texts, like The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, chances are you haven't heard of Marger...

Yep, Malory was a real-life knight. But, sadly for him, he was born in the 15th century, a time of great upheaval in England. So, that whole knightly thing? It wasn't working out very well back the...