My Albion

  Earlier this evening on Bluesky, I launched a new suggestion for a collective noun for books, namely 'an insufficiency'. The term ...

  Around 1450, a chapel was built in the cathedral complex of Santiago de Compostela, dedicated to the Holy Spirit. The chapel contained sto...

Today, January 15, is the feast of Paul the Hermit, who is also known as Paul of Thebes. According to tradition, he died in the year 341, an...

  For me, 2024 was the closing of a chapter, as my forty-month postdoctoral contract came to its end. The knowledge that this would quite po...

I often think that if we, as a twenty-first-century society, ought to be more familiar with the literature of the past, in order to get a be...

Today, December 28, is the feast of the Holy Innocents, instituted to commemorate the children murdered on the orders of Herod according to ...

  Last Friday, I closed the most recent chapter in my life, as my postdoctoral contract came to an end. For 40 months, I lived and worked in...