My Albion

  los raudos torbellinos de Noruega  - Luís de Gongora, Soledades  In the library of the University of Salamanca there are four globes, dona...

In the later medieval period, i.e., from the late fourteenth century onwards, the cult of Saint George underwent a remarkable surge in Denma...

  Five years ago, I was living in my native village and I wrote a blogpost on how the feast of Cathedra Petri, or Saint Peter's Chair, ...

I like small stages  - Mark Knopfler   In 2000, I watched an interview with Mark Knopfler on a Norwegian talkshow. I had recently become awa...

'Lads,' he cried, 'there's spoor here;'  - John Buchan, Prester John  In the right perspective, all records of history a...

There is an old truism that children should be encouraged to read comic books because doing so leads to reading other books. While this is t...

Today is the feast of Saint Agnes of Rome, who was killed during the Diocletian persecutions of the early fourth century. She was one of the...