A Clerk of Oxford

I wish I'd read this over the summer, when I was here in Oxford over the vacation - but better late than never! Charles Lamb, ' Oxfo...

OK, let's see if I can explain this thought coherently; I'm fluey and word-deprived. My poem-obsession of this week - the one that...

Some snippets of Langland on charity, a kind of meditation on 1 Corinthians 13. The dreamer is questioning Anima, a personification of the r...

This is from the chronicle of the twelfth-century monk Orderic Vitalis, who was born in England but lived in Normandy and provides one of th...

On autumn and the changing of the year, from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ll.516-533): After þe sesoun of somer wyth þe soft wynde...

... one last bonus fact about St Edward the Confessor, since today is his actual feast. The translation of his relics (of which today in the...

" God made Sun and Moon to distinguish seasons, and day, and night, and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in t...