A Clerk of Oxford

The v day longeth to Sent Thomas, That as a strong pyllar of brass Held up the Chyrch, and slayn he was, For he stod with ryghtwessness. (Fr...

To bliss God bring us, all and some, Christe, Redemptor omnium . In Bethlehem, that fair city, Was born a child that was so free, Lord and p...

This is a 16th-century lullaby carol, and it's a Scottish translation of a poem by Luther, so we're some way here from the medieval ...

It's snowing in the UK, and my planned journey home is looking a little hazardous. Things were harder in eleventh-century Cambridgeshire...

I really loved the new Voyage of the Dawn Treader film, having expected to completely hate it. It was one of my favourite books as a child,...

Christmas is very close now; it's time for the first of the O Antiphons. O Sapientia, quae ex ore Altissimi prodiisti, attingens a fine ...

I never knew this before: why in English King Cnut is sometimes called 'Canute', with two syllables. From E. A. Freeman's monum...