A Clerk of Oxford

Crowland Abbey Today is the anniversary of the execution of Waltheof , Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbria, the most high-profile Englis...

It's still Eastertide for a little while longer, so here's an Easter carol. This is the kind of Easter carol which is more appropri...

Some person of very good taste chose the following hymn for Radio 4's 'Sunday Worship' programme this morning, which greatly ple...

I've glanced over this hymn several times in the past and never got past the first two verses, which for some reason don't much app...

Because I was thinking about Canterbury, here are some more-or-less randomly-chosen pictures of my favourite cathedral. This is its most fam...

The days between May 25-28 are variously dedicated in the church's calendar to four of my favourite medieval people: Bede, St Augustine ...

British Library, Royal 6 E VII This is a thirteenth-century Annunciation lyric from the manuscript Cambridge, Trinity College B.14.39 ....