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My Albion: The Chill of the Hunt - hunting tips from the classical and medieval peripheries

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A chronicle of sundry adventures in England. And was the holy Lamb of God,. On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did those feet, William Blake. Søndag 26. juli 2015. The Chill of the Hunt - hunting tips from the classical and medieval peripheries. In a previous blogpost. I talked about the appearances of bearded women on the peripheries of the medieval world, and I lingered a bit on their mention in the encyclopedia De Natura Rerum. Elephants hunted by saw. Valenciennes - BM - ms. 0320. This belief in...

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My Albion: juli 2015

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A chronicle of sundry adventures in England. And was the holy Lamb of God,. On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did those feet, William Blake. Onsdag 29. juli 2015. Saint Olaf and the literature of Nidaros Archbishopric c.1180 - c.1220. Yesterday, June 29. Was the dies natalis. An important part of Eystein's effort was the cult of Saint Olaf, who became known in the twelfth century as rex perpetuus Norvegie. The martyrdom of Olaf Haraldsson. Courtesy of Store Norske Leksikon. Which was being compiled...

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My Albion: The Swineherd King

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A chronicle of sundry adventures in England. And was the holy Lamb of God,. On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did those feet, William Blake. Fredag 26. juni 2015. In the preface to his hagiography of Edward the Confessor, Aelred of Rievaulx comments that no other royal house of Europe can look back at such a plethora of saintly kings and queens. However, according to a tradition picked up by Jacobus de Voragine in his Legenda Aurea. A very entertaining read. It is likely that Jacobus drew on Bede f...

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My Albion: Where the Wild Women Are - bearded women in medieval geography

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A chronicle of sundry adventures in England. And was the holy Lamb of God,. On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did those feet, William Blake. Mandag 13. juli 2015. Where the Wild Women Are - bearded women in medieval geography. Purportedly written by Alexander to his old tutor, and other accounts of the Macedonian conqueror captivated the medieval imagination and achieved a wide dissemination in languages as diverse as Georgian, Greek, Old Norse, Old English and Old French. F045, Opus de Natura Rerum.

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My Albion: Saint Edmund the Ring-giver – SS Edmund and Edward in the later Middle Ages

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A chronicle of sundry adventures in England. And was the holy Lamb of God,. On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did those feet, William Blake. Fredag 6. februar 2015. Saint Edmund the Ring-giver – SS Edmund and Edward in the later Middle Ages. I’m currently doing some reading in Legenda Aurea. The South English Legendary. And the Nova Legenda Anglie. Considering that Jacobus probably envisioned only a relatively local circulation of his work, his lack of English material is neither surprising nor som...

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My Albion: A church of its time - a brief history of the Church of St. Olav, Trondheim

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A chronicle of sundry adventures in England. And was the holy Lamb of God,. On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did those feet, William Blake. Mandag 31. mars 2014. A church of its time - a brief history of the Church of St. Olav, Trondheim. In the early 20. That the Catholic bishop has his cathedra. Modern statue of St. Olav from the eponymous church, conspicuously beardless. Photo credits: Eline Løvlien. The heavily-restored medieval cathedral, the church's neighbour. Send dette via e-post. The str...

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My Albion: The Fount of Tides - how tidewater was explained in the Middle Ages

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A chronicle of sundry adventures in England. And was the holy Lamb of God,. On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did those feet, William Blake. Onsdag 23. juli 2014. The Fount of Tides - how tidewater was explained in the Middle Ages. Veni in altitudinem maris, et tempestas demersit me. De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine. On the myth of the flat earth. Olaus Magnus map of the northern reaches from 1539. Courtesy of medievalists.net. When considering this excerpt from Adam's Gesta hamaburgensis. Abonne...

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My Albion: Ignorance and Experience: An Illuminator's Trajectory

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A chronicle of sundry adventures in England. And was the holy Lamb of God,. On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did those feet, William Blake. Lørdag 12. mai 2012. Ignorance and Experience: An Illuminator's Trajectory. There is an animal called the elephant, which has no desire to mate. MS Bodley 764, translated by Richard Barber. Bonnacon from the MS Bodley 764. War elephant from MS Bodley 764. The elephant of Cremona from Chronica Majora. In the second part of. Send dette via e-post. King Sverre of...

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My Albion: That Catholic Round World - flat earth as counter-medievalism

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A chronicle of sundry adventures in England. And was the holy Lamb of God,. On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did those feet, William Blake. Fredag 15. august 2014. That Catholic Round World - flat earth as counter-medievalism. JESPER BAILIFF: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, let us talk of something else. That is some disturbed nonsense, it can make you Catholic in the head. Ludvig Holberg, Erasmus Montanus (Act 3, Scene 2) (my translation). Ludvig Holberg, c.1747 by Johan Roselius. Courtesy of this website.

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My Albion: Seamus Heaney's Postscript

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A chronicle of sundry adventures in England. And was the holy Lamb of God,. On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did those feet, William Blake. Tirsdag 30. juni 2015. Since June is drawing to its close, I will keep it very simple in this month's fourth blogpost, presenting the poem Postscript. By Seamus Heaney, which I came across when reading The Poetry of Birds. Edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee. And some time make the time to drive out west. Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,. Edmund of ...