Wednesday 1 May 2024
The Legend of St Philip the Apostle
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Today is the traditional date for the Feast of SS Philip and James. This was moved in what became both OF and EF usage following a set of ...
Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Glastonbury
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The Pilgrimage begins at Glastonbury, that unique cradle of so many English traditions. The amended post introducing the Glastonbury devotio...
May Marian Pilgrimage
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In 2020 to celebrate the rededication of England as the Dowry of Our Lady I took up an idea of Fr Hunwicke from his blog. This was, in the c...
Tuesday 30 April 2024
Rural fraud on the Isle of Wight in the 1260s
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The third of these articles about farming life from Medievalists.net looks at the potential for fraud by a farm manager as described by Ro...
Farm life near Durham in the later middle ages
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The second piece on the Medievalists.net website about gaming life is taken from a 2010 paper by Prof. Richard Britnell which draws on the...
How to be a Good Shepherd in the middle ages
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Medievalists.net has had three recent posts about aspects of medieval farming practice which give insights into the life of the past yet wh...
Monday 29 April 2024
The grave of Cerdic
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The Mail Online reports about the apparent identification near Andover of the burial mound of Cerdic, the founder of the royal house of W...
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Treasures from the household of Queen Henrietta Maria
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By chance I came upon a Mail Online article from 2016 about a significant discovery made by divers off the Dutch island of Texel in 2014. T...
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