tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post9060827385449006324..comments2024-03-25T20:43:33.067+00:00Comments on A Clerk of Oxford: Ramsey the RichClerk of Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-40784659244845583592015-11-18T17:15:05.867+00:002015-11-18T17:15:05.867+00:00I just love all of this. The pictures, the storie...I just love all of this. The pictures, the stories! Kings Delph still exists as a local place name, just outside Whittlesey.<br />And what energy to do all that and Peterborough in the same day!<br />Most of all, I agree how tragic it is that all of this monastic heritage was destroyed by Henry VIII.sensibiliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08715737628925538412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-18119101173626593202015-11-15T22:20:59.501+00:002015-11-15T22:20:59.501+00:00What lovely comments - thank you both!What lovely comments - thank you both!Clerk of Oxfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-69620065984929791902015-11-14T14:11:44.679+00:002015-11-14T14:11:44.679+00:00I am a non-Brit inspired by your interest in the p...I am a non-Brit inspired by your interest in the past and your love for its people. Especially its very human scholar-monks. Your writings and photographs are important educational tools for any who happen to find them, as I did one day ("by chance"--as if!) and now thank God for generous persons like you and for the opportunities for learning that the contemporary world and its Albertushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03798398724717253296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-70290620470832313492015-11-10T03:07:08.161+00:002015-11-10T03:07:08.161+00:00I tend to read around the calendar working out fro...I tend to read around the calendar working out from Dr. Farmer's Oxford Book and Donald Attwater's old Penguin Book of Saints, but what a wonderful, delightfully readable (and well-illustrated) picture of depth and interrelations though these centuries of Church history you have made for us here! How much I've learned in little space!<br /><br />An Old MertonianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-88241288119024349702015-11-09T15:00:46.783+00:002015-11-09T15:00:46.783+00:00Now I think about it JC also attached a quote from...Now I think about it JC also attached a quote from Mary Berry [not THAT one, at least I don't think so!] which bears out your comments on the dreary Last Kingdom series:<br />‘Accounts such as this… are frequently found in the later Middle Ages and such a celebration would have been almost commonplace if it had taken place, exactly as described in the manuscript, in about 1491, not 991, five David Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12032078416356784416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-75594767960102279662015-11-09T14:00:38.533+00:002015-11-09T14:00:38.533+00:00Thanks, David! That's a wonderful description....Thanks, David! That's a wonderful description. Now you mention it, I think it was James Campbell who made the suggestion linking the rededication and 'The Battle of Maldon'. The festival must have been quite a sight!Clerk of Oxfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-16147585380614843852015-11-09T13:31:43.855+00:002015-11-09T13:31:43.855+00:00This is wonderful. Thank you for making the past c...This is wonderful. Thank you for making the past come alive.Anselmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08207186049216757094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-3714211660498169012015-11-09T10:51:45.120+00:002015-11-09T10:51:45.120+00:00I've always loved this, about the rededication...I've always loved this, about the rededication of Ramsey in 991, which I found in a book of James Campbell's: <br />‘As the Bishops, the Princes, the Abbots and the Knights entered a huge crowd of people gathered, who, on beholding the splendour of the holy building burst out into the praises of the God of Heaven with serene minds and sincere hearts. The monks' choir then began to David Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12032078416356784416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-63391632237447881072015-11-09T02:53:07.226+00:002015-11-09T02:53:07.226+00:00I have just finished reading Paul Kingsnorth's...I have just finished reading Paul Kingsnorth's "The Wake," and appreciate your post on church history on Ramsey and the Fens. Kingsnorth's tragic hero Beccmaster lives in "the fenns" 75 years after Oswald's death, at the time of the Norman Invasion. He resists the "frenc," who are destroying Anglo Saxon society as well as the "preost," the &Anne in the Gardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12438821344716860905noreply@blogger.com