It is the medieval equivalent of late-night comedy. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. ... LONDON — It’s around the year 1480, and a wandering English bard walks into a bar.

“Most medieval poetry, song and storytelling has been lost,” Wade said in a statement. “Manuscripts often preserve relics of high art. This is something else.

Medieval writers transformed tales of an obscure bard into legends of a mighty wizard who put King Arthur on the throne of Camelot. HISTORY MAGAZINE Here’s the history.

The Norfolk coastal town of King’s Lynn today not only boasts the largest surviving medieval Guildhall in the country – there is also compelling research suggesting Shakespeare himself ...