medieval curse

The Ring of Silvianus: Investigating the Real-Life Cursed Ring That Inspired J.R.R. TolkienIntroduction (approx. 170 words) The story of a ring that carried a curse, a disputed theft, and a dramatic 4th-century legal plea reads like a plot point from high fantasy — and yet it belongs to the real world. The Ring of Silvianus, discovered in Roman Britain and later implicated in a medieval gift and restitution saga called the “Curse of the Savoy,”…