A Clerk of Oxford

Spy Wednesday is traditionally the day on which Judas went to betray Christ in exchange for thirty pieces of silver. There's a fascinati...

At the beginning of Passus 18 in the B-text of Piers Plowman , the poem veers unexpectedly into an account of Christ's Passion, beginn...

At church this morning, and on this day for as long as I can remember, we carry crosses made of real palms: thick, yellow-beige, almost shin...

Today is the Feast of the Annunciation, known in medieval England as Lady Day. It was also the beginning of the New Year until, I believe, ...

By an act of the understanding therefore be present now with all the creatures among which you live; and hear them in their beings and opera...

'That violence wherewith sometimes a man doteth upon one creature, is but a little spark of that love, even towards all, which lurketh ...

Credenhill, Herefordshire, where Thomas Traherne was rector from 1657-1666 The World is unknown, till the Value and Glory of it is seen: til...