A Clerk of Oxford

'I wolde witen...' I wolde witen of sum wys wiht Witterly what this world were. Hit fareth as a foules fliht; Now is hit hen...

A post on Midsummer isolation and 'The Wife's Lament', which is a shortened version of something I originally posted on Patr...

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 ...