mandag 30. mars 2020

Saints for the season - a reflection on plague saints

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Tu de peste huiusmodi Nos defende et custodi - Motet for Saint Sebastian, Guillaume Dufay In these times of a global pandemic, a lot o...
søndag 29. mars 2020

Histories from home, part 1 - minor monuments

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Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments - Thomas Browne, Urn...
tirsdag 17. mars 2020

Working with liturgical fragments, part 16 - the clue is in the notation

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I am currently reading articles dealing with some of the few but valuable medieval fragments that have survived from the twelfth and thi...
mandag 2. mars 2020

The death of Charles I of Flanders, and sources to Danish history - a quick note on the Legendarium Flandrense

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Today is the feast of Charles I, count of Flanders (1084-1127), who was murdered in the Church of Saint Donatian in Bruges on March 2, whi...
lørdag 29. februar 2020

SS Protus and Hyacinth in Cornwall - a speculative blogpost

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Yesterday, I saw a tweet from the Church of St Protus and Hyacinth in Blisland, North Cornwall. The image showed a lovely chancel ceiling...
tirsdag 25. februar 2020

Minor pleasures - an initial from a twelfth-century manuscript

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This week is an incredibly busy week, and my mind is compartmentalising my sundry tasks to such an extent that I pretty much have a tunne...
lørdag 22. februar 2020

Saint Peter's Chair - a feast of papal identity

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Peter seated Cambrai - BM - ms. 0528 , f.141, homiliary, C12  (courtesy of enluminures.culture.fr ) Today, February 22, is the ...