My Albion

May 29th is the anniversary of the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, a momentous watershed in late medieval history. The Byzantine Empire h...

Songs, sonnets, epigrams the winds uplift, And whisk them back to Evans , Young, and Swift. - The Dunciad, Alexander Pope One of t...

Last week I spent a few days in Oxford for a conference called Performing Medieval Texts, where I presented a paper. There will probably ...

Woodcut for Ægloga Quinta of The Shepheardes Calender (1579), image from luminarium The month of May is synonymous with merriment and...

For thou emongst those Saints, whom thou doest see, Shalt be a Saint, and thine owne nations frend And Patrone: thou Saint George sh...

Here in Norway we have suffered from an unusually long winter, and the greatest part of April has been covered by snow and marked by rath...

matre satus Terra, monstrum mirabile, taurus parte sui serpens posteriore fuit - Fasti, Ovidius This week in my Medieval Latin cl...