A Clerk of Oxford

Bertie Wooster meets an academic's family, from the story 'Without the Option', first published in 1925.  It helps to know that ...

This is a medieval carol in honour of St Francis of Assisi, written by John Audelay , who lived in the first decades of the fifteenth centur...

Now I have a little free time, I've started making more youtube videos of me reading things in Old and Middle English.  In terms of pro...

Michaelmas is one of my favourite days in the church's year, almost entirely because of the season in which it falls: it's an autum...

The little church at Ickham in Kent was the subject of one of my first church-visiting posts (and still, I think, my favourite). The f...

This is a medieval English metrical translation of a section from the 'Te Deum', 'Tu Rex gloriae, Christe'.  It was writt...

[This is part two of my posts on Evesham; part one is here ] I always think that anyone who innocently stumbles across this blog might be ...