My Albion
A chronicle of sundry adventures in England.
mandag 2. september 2013
Out of Ireland - elegy for Seamus Heaney
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For the past few years I have been an avid reader of Seamus Heaney's verse. His poetry belongs to a generation which experienced rapi...
torsdag 29. august 2013
A poem for Harold Godwinson
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Harold Godwinson is among the most maligned rulers of pre-norman England and his role as antagonist was an important element in the Nor...
mandag 26. august 2013
Souls of thy father's house - Doeg the Edomite
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I have been the occasion of the death of all the souls of thy father' s house. - 1 Samuel 22:22 The beheading of priests, MS....
fredag 23. august 2013
Martyrs of Flesh and Desire - the bloodless martyrdoms of Edward the Confessor and Louis IX
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In the previous blogpost I compared the iconographies of Edward the Confessor and Louis IX of France through a liturgical text most like...
mandag 19. august 2013
O Decus Ecclesie - comparative iconography on Edward the Confessor and Louis IX of France
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The comparative study of the saints Edward the Confessor (d.1066, can.1161) and Louis IX of France (d.1270, can.1297) is an immensely ric...
onsdag 14. august 2013
Travels in Tuscany, part 3 - The Way to Dusty Death
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And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death - The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare View from my roo...
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