My Albion

The Tudor rose, detail from a 1572 portrait of Elizabeth I Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Today I read for the first time John Skelton...

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. - The Critic as Artist, Oscar Wilde My eminent friend Ryan Hunt, fou...

Tjuandedag-Knut jagar jula ut - Old Norwegian saying Despite the fact that Norway became officially Lutheran, as part of the king...

Here Edward king, of Angles lord, sent his stedfast soul to Christ. In the kingdom of God a holy spirit! - Entry in the ...

Today, the last day of the year, is the feast day of Pope Sylvester (d. 335), whose legendary afterlife had an important place in the Mid...

The orders issued by a Herod's hand MS. Yates Thompson 45 , French Book of Hours (Use of Paris), last quarter of 14th century ...

Since it's Christmas Day, I find it proper to post one of the perhaps most cherished religious poems from Elizabethan England, namely...