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From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions , VIII and XIII . Still when we return to that meditation that man is a world, we find new discove...

Baptism of Christ, BL Arundel 157, f. 5v (England, 13th century) As you will know if you've been reading this blog for any length ...

Feasting in January ( BL Royal 2 B VII f. 71v ) If you, like me, are taking down the Christmas decorations today, here's a carol to...

Reges de Saba venient; Aurum, tus, myrram offerent; Alleluia. 1. Now is the Twelfth Day come, The Father and Son together are come, ...

Janus, from a calendar for January in a 12th-century English Psalter ( BL Lansdowne 383, f. 3 ) In the Anglo-Saxon period the date of t...

Feasting in January ( BL Royal 2 B VII, f. 71v ) A boisterous, rollicking medieval carol for the New Year. Hey, ay, hey, ay, Make we...

Thomas Becket at Nackington, Kent Archbishop Thomas Becket, murdered before his altar in Canterbury Cathedral late in the winter afternoon ...