A Clerk of Oxford

My column in the November issue of History Today can be read online here (and do buy the magazine - lots of good stuff in it this month...

As I lay in winter’s night, In a droupnynge before the day, [in uneasy sleep, before the dawn] Methought I saw a selly sight, [marvello...

Minster Abbey My latest column for History Today can be read online here . It's about a text very close to my heart: the Kentish R...

A diagram of the Ember Days in a manuscript made at Thorney Abbey, c. 1110 ( Oxford, St John's College MS. 17, f. 24v ) Wednesday...

The Nativity of the Virgin ( BL Harley 7026 , f. 17; England, c.1400) 8 September is 'Latter Lady Day', the feast of the Nativity ...

Just a quick announcement: my book, Dragon Lords , is coming out in the US later this month ! You can listen to me talking about it in an in...

It's the 5th August, which seems like a good excuse to revisit a topic I wrote about some years ago: the fun and games of medieval Linco...