A Clerk of Oxford

Just sharing this piece , rather belatedly, at what would once have been the tail-end of Whitsuntide. It doesn’t feel natural to go on li...

The Virgin Mary and Christ, in a Book of Hours of c.1510-20 ( BL Add MS 35214, f. 27 ) Alone alone alone alone Sore I sigh and all for...

Christ in Quarantine (British Library, Royal MS 1 D X, f. 52v) Strange new events call for new vocabulary, and over the last few weeks ...

The Virgin Mary in a fourteenth-century manuscript, BL Royal MS 6 E VII Part 2, f. 479 Back in Advent, I revisited the poems of the 15t...

The Adoration of the Magi, British Library, Add. 18850, f. 24v Two carols for Twelfth Night, the eve of the Epiphany. The visit of the ...

In the Christmas edition of the Catholic Herald, I've written a short piece about the medieval carol 'Lullay, Myn Lyking' (...

Annunciation ( BL Add. 29433, f. 20 ) Here's an Advent poem from a collection of carols which was compiled by James Ryman, Francisc...