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A Clerk of Oxford: June 2013
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2016/04/when-i-see-blossoms-spring.html?showComment=1459772329537
A Clerk of Oxford: 'When I see blossoms spring'
Iffley, Oxford When I se blosmes springe, And here foules song, A suete love-longynge Myn herte thourhout stong, Al for a love newe...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2011/10/medieval-love-poem-fortunes-wheel.html
A Clerk of Oxford: A Medieval Love Poem: Fortune's Wheel
A late 15th-century poem which, like this one , comes from the Findern manuscript. A! mercy, Fortune, have pitee on me, And thinke that thu ...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2017/05/ascension-day-and-death-of-bede.html
A Clerk of Oxford: Ascension Day and the Death of Bede
Bede (Norwich Cathedral) Today is the feast of the Ascension, and it is also the feast of Bede, Anglo-Saxon England's greatest scholar ...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-little-history-of-lammas.html?showComment=1501673767768
A Clerk of Oxford: A Little History of Lammas
BL Harley 603, f.66 Today is Lammas, an Anglo-Saxon harvest festival celebrated on 1st August. Its name comes from Old English hlaf , '...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2011/02/candlemas-and-carol-of-king-cnut.html?showComment=1574962585167&m=0
A Clerk of Oxford: Candlemas and The Carol of King Cnut
This post features a combination of two favourite themes of this blog: Christmas carols, and King Cnut. But it also celebrates Candlemas. Le...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2012/08/st-dunstans-church-canterbury-and-st.html?showComment=1346257086157
A Clerk of Oxford: St Dunstan's Church, Canterbury, and St Thomas More
This is the church of St Dunstan, Canterbury, a medieval church which has an interesting history stretching over nearly a thousand years, b...
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A Clerk of Oxford: January 2013
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2012/05/songs-of-godric-of-finchale.html?showComment=1388251752897
A Clerk of Oxford: The Songs of Godric of Finchale
Godric of Finchale , who died on 21 May 1170, was a merchant-turned-hermit and saint who is also one of the first named English songwriters ...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-long-lent-and-history-of-quarantine.html?showComment=1585800521932
A Clerk of Oxford: The Long Lent and the History of Quarantine
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 ...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-death-of-svein-forkbeard.html?showComment=1391688158986
A Clerk of Oxford: The Danish Conquest, 1000 Years, Part 4: The Death of Svein Forkbeard
On February 3, 1014, Svein Forkbeard died at Gainsborough in Lincolnshire. He died as king of England and Denmark, a triumphant conqueror, j...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2013/08/two-medieval-prayers-to-christ.html?showComment=1376815235399
A Clerk of Oxford: Two Medieval Prayers to Christ
Following on from a post back in June, here are two more prayers from the collection of the Chester nun, Margery Byrkenhed . In the manuscr...
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A Clerk of Oxford: St Thorlak and the King's Lynn Sausage Miracle
December 23rd is the feast-day of St Thorlak, the patron saint of Iceland, who has some unexpected but interesting connections to medieva...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2013/12/conditor-alme-siderum-holy-maker-of.html?m=0
A Clerk of Oxford: Conditor alme siderum: Holy maker of sterres bright
Creation of the stars, BL Royal E IX, f. 3v Among the Office Hymns for Advent is 'Conditor Alme Siderum' , best known in translation to...
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A Clerk of Oxford: March 2018
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A Clerk of Oxford: Some end of year thanks
The last day of the year seems like a good time to say thank you. Over the course of 2014 the number of visitors to this blog has risen rapi...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2011/06/veni-creator-spiritus-various.html?m=1
A Clerk of Oxford: Veni Creator Spiritus: Various Translations
For Whitsun (aka Pentecost, but let's be medieval here), here's the hymn 'Veni Creator Spiritus', as translated by various English poets ove...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2010/01/worlds-desire.html
A Clerk of Oxford: The World's Desire
Christmas seems like a long time ago. Less than a month ago, I was looking forward to going home; then we had Christmas, New Year, Epiphany...
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A Clerk of Oxford: Barfreston
As promised , let's go on a virtual visit to Barfreston and its extraordinary Norman carvings. Barfreston is a tiny place - as far as I cou...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2011/12/medieval-love-lament-now-springes-spray.html
A Clerk of Oxford: A Medieval Love Lament: Now Springes the Spray
A sad little song from c.1300 (for which this picture entitled 'Broken Vows', though entirely unmedieval, seems nonetheless appropriate). No...
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A Clerk of Oxford: Home
Finally back in Oxford, a week after we should have been, via Denmark, Germany and Holland, after a three-day journey involving 25 hours on...
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A Clerk of Oxford: The full tide of our happiness
It's the end of the summer now, but here's a rather belated poem on a summer holiday - or rather, an August honeymoon - by Coventry Patmor...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-coming-of-christ-golden-blossom.html?showComment=1480325277765
A Clerk of Oxford: The Coming of Christ, the Golden Blossom
Christ in Majesty (Grimbald Gospels, BL Add. 34890, f. 114v ) On the first Sunday of Advent, here's a fragment of an anonymous Anglo-Sa...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-medieval-love-poem-yet-would-i-not.html
A Clerk of Oxford: A Medieval Love Poem: 'Yet would I not the causer fared amiss'
Lovers, from British Library, Royal 6 E VII, f.150 Yet would I not the causer fared amiss, For all the good that ever I had or shall; ...
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https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2013/05/thomas-traherne-on-trinity.html
A Clerk of Oxford: Thomas Traherne on the Trinity
From Centuries of Meditations , 2:39-41: God is not a mixt and compounded Being, so that His Love is one thing and Himself another: but th...
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