medieval
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Spoilers!
Speaking of Chaucer, here’s a post I wrote on my old blog in January of last year. Enjoy! Canterbury Tales Prologueca. 1400-1410, mssEL 26 C 9, Huntington Digital Library Last spring I had planned to take a class on Chaucer at my local college but that didn’t work out for a number of reasons. To… Continue reading
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Back to school!
Me. I’m going back to school as an undergrad student. When my youngest child graduated homeschool in 2021 I decided to take a French class from our local college. I’d been wanting to study French since I was 13 years old and reading Hercule Poirot stories. And the more I read English literature and history,… Continue reading
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Of knights and snails
Yesterday we read Psalm 58 during Morning Prayers and it reminded me of this fun speculative post I wrote for my old blog a couple of years ago, so I thought I’d share it here. ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ One the funnest parts of looking at medieval art is running across an illustration of a knight… Continue reading
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Happy New Year!
Happy Medieval New Year, that is, and maybe more specifically, medieval English new year. The sixth century monk Dionysius Exiguus is the one who created our current Anno Domini system of dating, in which the life of Christ is the significant event that all history is dated from. By the late seventh century most of… Continue reading