Eleanor Parker

@ClerkofOxford

Medievalist and columnist. I tweet about medieval English literature, saints, Vikings, and folklore.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: siječanj 2013.

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    11. svi 2018.
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    Definitely the kind of night to stay in and read a good book... (Reading by Lamplight, Sir George Clausen, 1909)

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    And for our customary goodnight sunset, here's 'Sunset' by Louis Remy Mignot, 1859.

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    The Miracle Windows are full of scenes of St Thomas tending to the sick. Here, he is depicted in a window dating to ca 1213. It is stories like this that elevated Canterbury's reputation as a major pilgrimage destination in the middle ages.

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    prije 11 sati

    Our followers who are interested in the Old Norse influence on the English language should check out . You can start here with an essay on terms in English: and then get stuck into their newly-launched database:

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    prije 14 sati

    Tolkien had a longstanding interest in Chaucer and even played the role of the poet at Oxford festivals in the 1930s.

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    5th February 2020 07.52

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    31. sij

    TEARFUL was applied to a job of work that was very arduous or exacting in nature, so as to bring one almost to tears. "This stone-quarrying, at the present piece-work rates, be a most tearful kind of job!" (Noted in the Weald, Ashford and district).

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    4. velj

    Armed with pewter pots from the vestry, Old Fox had offered to arrange the flowers in St Michael's. He went for a walk over the downs to cut hazel & alder with his pen knife. By Evensong, branches of nodding catkins filled the quiet old church with their sweet gold quickening.

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    4. velj

    What does Tolkien’s work on an unfinished project reveal about his engagement with Chaucer and his methods as a scholar and a creative artist? A review by from the February issue:

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    4. velj

    A newly-discovered manuscript from Sempringham Priory, to mark the feast of Gilbert of Sempringham. It contains these Middle English medical recipes and a drawing of the body of Christ taken from the Cross. Today's blogpost by explains more:

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    4. velj

    I've redone Hoo on the . Quiet, unpretentious, intensely rural, with a fascinating font and a dedication unique in England:

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    Thinking today that going off to found my own religious order in the loneliness of the Fens may actually be a very tempting career choice.

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    Sempringham, where St Gilbert founded his religious community in 1131 on his father's lands, is a memorable place: a church standing completely alone amid flat Lincolnshire farmland, a tree-ringed spot of green without another house or another soul in sight.

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    Delighted to have reviewed 'Tolkien's Lost Chaucer' for - the image of Tolkien declaiming extracts from the Canterbury Tales, dressed up as Chaucer and complete with forked beard, will stay with me...

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    Today is the feast of St Gilbert of Sempringham (d.1189), saint of Anglo-Norman Lincolnshire. He is said to be the only Englishman in the Middle Ages to have founded his own religious order, the Gilbertines

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    A thread on Svein Forkbeard, Candlemas and the 'Carol of King Cnut'...

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    3. velj

    A fragment of a liturgical book taken to Sweden by English missionaries in the 11th century (probably).

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    'A light to lighten the English': St Dunstan and a Candlemas miracle in Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury

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    'On the Purificacyon Day er ellys Candilmesse Day whan the sayd creatur beheld the pepil wyth her candelys in cherch, hir mende was raveschyd into beholdyng of owr Lady...' Margery Kempe's experience of Candlemas:

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