A Clerk of Oxford

Publication day is fast approaching for my book , Dragon Lords , which explores a range of medieval legends about the Vikings in England....

The spring has come late this year, but it has come at last. As I was admiring some newly-sprung blossom yesterday (that's it in the ...

A feast, heading a calendar page for April in an Anglo-Saxon manuscript ( BL Cotton Tiberius B V, f. 4v ) How was Easter celebrated in...

More than two months since I last posted on this blog! I don't think such a thing has ever happened before - but I return with some e...

For this New Year, three medieval texts which play on three words appropriate for the season: nowell , new, Yule . 'Christe redemp...