fredag 31. august 2018

Felix, and Adauctus the added saint

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Yesterday, August 30, was the feast of SS Felix and Adauctus, who were believed to have suffered during Diocletian's persecution of Chr...
onsdag 29. august 2018

A requiem by Duarte Lobo

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Since so much of my work consists of researching medieval liturgy, much of the music to which I listen in the course of a workday is also ...
søndag 26. august 2018

Working with liturgical manuscripts, part 13 - the intertextuality of an antiphon

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I have recently returned to work on manuscript fragments at Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, and it is very gratifying to sit down with the...
søndag 19. august 2018

Difficult writes - or, the unexpected challenges of an otherwise ordinary article text

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So much of academic life is writing, and the amount of writing you are supposed to do only increases as you delve farther into an academic ...
tirsdag 31. juli 2018

The World - a sonnet by Christina Rossetti

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As the month winds to its close and I'm on the verge of returning to the duties of academic existence in Denmark, I present you with a ...
søndag 29. juli 2018

Saint Olaf seated - an illumination from The Icelandic Model Book

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Today is the feast of Saint Olaf, the patron saint of Norway, who died at Stiklestad north of Trondheim in 1030. He fought against an army ...
mandag 23. juli 2018

Another Song of a Fool - a poem by W. B. Yeats

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For the, hopefully, quiet summer days, here is one of William Butler Yeats' perhaps lesser known poems, provided here by virtue of it b...