BBC Two's medieval murder mystery The Name of the Rose has arrived to liven up your Friday evenings, and this classic story arose from one of the best-selling novels of all time. The book on which ...

Classic review: The Name of the Rose Semiotics intertwines with murder in this mystery set in a medieval abbey. The Name of the Rose By Umberto Eco Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 552 pp., $15.95 ...

The Name of the Rose was a huge sensation when it was published in 1980 and translated to English by William Weaver in 1983, going on to sell more than 50 million copies, inspire a blockbuster ...

Anno Domini 1327 slipped by uneventfully at Eberbach Monastery in Eltville, Germany, situated on a hilltop above the Rhine, even though it was a watershed year for the mythical Benedictine abbey de… ...

The Italian author and academic who intrigued, puzzled and delighted readers worldwide with his best-selling medieval thriller, The Name of the Rose, died at home in Milan on Friday evening after ...

Italian writer Umberto Eco has died at age 84. His first novel, 1980’s “The Name of the Rose,” was a bestseller. This review of “The Name of the Rose” was originally published in The ...

It may be a coincidence that a new television adaptation of Umberto Eco’s 1980 medieval ecclesiastic detective novel “The Name of the Rose” begins the same week that HBO’s &… ...

‘The Name of the Rose’: TV Review. Like its predecessor, the latest attempt to turn Umberto Eco's novel 'The Name of the Rose' into a coherent screen drama falls flat.

'The Name of the Rose' screenwriter Andrew Birkin on Sean Connery's most un-James Bond role as medieval friar William of Baskerville.

The resulting book, “The Name of the Rose,” was published in Italian in 1980, in English three years later and became an irresistible publishing force. No one was more surprised than Mr. Eco.