My Albion

At the end of May and the beginning of June, I'm organising a conference in Odense on the various representations of saints in differe...

Ever since I handed in my PhD thesis in October last year, I have been spending my leisure time reading literature from parts of the world...

Today is the feast of Saint George, one of the most widely popular among the saints of medieval Christendom. According to his legend, he w...

Although I no longer work at the university library of University of Southern Denmark, I have a backlog of things to write and talk about r...

Since this is the paschal time, I present you one of Geoffrey Hill's early poems, taken from his first collection For the Unfallen  fro...

Continuing on from previous blogpost's theme of islands, and keeping in tune with my abiding fascination with them, I here give you a ...

It is the Easter week and I am home, back in the house of my paternal grandparents where I spent so much of my childhood, and where - becaus...