A Clerk of Oxford

Westron wynde, when wyll thow blow the smalle rayne downe can rayne? Cryst yf my love were in my armys, And I yn my bed agayne! Words and mu...

Matthew Paris explains natural phenomena: 'Although other great and unheard-of wonders happened in this year [1240], we have thought it...

Never thought I'd see the day when Gorm the Old got his name in The Sun ... that's really quite freaky. I wonder where they got tha...

By Michael Drayton (1563-1631). You not alone, when you are still alone, O God, from you that I could private be! Since you one were, I neve...

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font: The fire...

Here 's something to make you want to cry. "The Church of England has voted to use more accessible language during baptisms to ...

This is a weird one. As told to William of Malmesbury, with reference to a miracle performed by Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury: Dunstan ...