tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post163706409767726751..comments2024-03-25T20:43:33.067+00:00Comments on A Clerk of Oxford: Reburying Anglo-Saxon KingsClerk of Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-61239164610623051662015-05-16T01:48:08.668+01:002015-05-16T01:48:08.668+01:00Fascinating! Thank you!
I wonder how 'Cur mun...Fascinating! Thank you!<br /><br />I wonder how 'Cur mundus militat' through all the history of its texts, translations, and manuscripts sits with High and Late Medieval attention to sacred relics? <br /><br />And I wonder, too, how characteristic or unusual the Wenhaston iconology of St. Peter welcoming the happy dead is? - my first thought was, 'the Harrowing of hell? - but that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-13993762279716598262015-04-29T13:21:15.802+01:002015-04-29T13:21:15.802+01:00You have a way of drawing the reader into the past...You have a way of drawing the reader into the past and making it rear in the present. Thank youAnselmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-14924627963528134782015-04-25T19:01:29.346+01:002015-04-25T19:01:29.346+01:00I don't know about this poem specifically, but...I don't know about this poem specifically, but More's elegy is very much in the same tradition!Clerk of Oxfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-26857570969553380562015-04-25T09:08:26.239+01:002015-04-25T09:08:26.239+01:00So fascinating. Do you think the poem influenced ...So fascinating. Do you think the poem influenced Thomas More's elegy on the death of Elizabeth of York? The tone is similar.sensibiliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08715737628925538412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-36850593719059431922015-04-25T01:10:42.413+01:002015-04-25T01:10:42.413+01:00Clerk of Oxford; Thank you!Clerk of Oxford; Thank you!John Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-11751115239051781682015-04-24T19:18:51.802+01:002015-04-24T19:18:51.802+01:00Thanks for this wonderful post. I especially like...Thanks for this wonderful post. I especially like "It's those who have contempt for the world (in the old sense of contemptus mundi) who are most free to improve it, being least in thrall to its chains of success, wealth and power."Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06624317806947588259noreply@blogger.com