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Swithun in the Benedictional of St Æthelwold (BL Additional 49598, f.97v) Today is St Swithun's Day, when the weather-gods obey the...

One of the most valued regular contributors to this blog is the prolific Anglo-Saxon monk Ælfric, who lived in the second half of the ten...

The site of St Thomas' shrine, Canterbury Cathedral Today is the summer feast of St Thomas Becket - the feast of his translation, w...

An illustration from the sole surviving MS of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (from the British Library ) My latest History Today col...