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Thursday, 24 December 2015

Some Carols for Christmas Eve

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A monk and nun playing music ( BL Royal 2 B VII, f.177 ) Advent is gone, Christmas is come; Be we merry now, all and some! He is not wise...
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Sunday, 20 December 2015

The Anglo-Saxon O Antiphons: O Rex Pacifice, O thou true and thou peaceful one

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Christ in glory ( BL Cotton Vespasian A VIII, f. 2v , 10th century, Winchester) The antiphon for 20 December is 'O clavis David...
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Friday, 18 December 2015

The Anglo-Saxon O Antiphons: O Jerusalem, Vision of Peace

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The Virgin and Child ( BL Add. 34890, f. 115 , 11th century, England) The last week of Advent is the season of the 'O Antiphons...
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Saturday, 28 November 2015

'Swa leaf on treowum'

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Wynter wakeneth al my care, Nou this leves waxeth bare; Ofte I sike ant mourne sare When hit cometh in my thoght Of this worldes joie...
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Friday, 27 November 2015

In Defence of 'Monks on the Make': Glastonbury, Lies, and Legends

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'The tomb of King Arthur', BL Harley 1766, f. 219 A story has been going around the British media this past week, springing from so...
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Tuesday, 17 November 2015

St Hilda and Hidden Gold

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St Hilda (Worcester Cathedral) Today is the feast of St Hilda, abbess of Whitby, who died on 17 November 680. Born into a royal family ...
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Sunday, 8 November 2015

Ramsey the Rich

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At the end of September I visited Ramsey, a small Fenland town which was once the site of a great medieval abbey. It's about thirty m...
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