Troy was of immense importance in the dynastic politics of the Middle Ages, with all the major polities claiming their origins in a Trojan founder. The Roman de Troie (c. 1165) was a French verse ...

Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, will give the first of a series of lectures on "The Free Communes of Mediaeval Italy" this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson D. The ...