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The Battle of Maldon
The battle of Maldon in 991 AD was a defeat. The Old English poem about it that survives, The Battle of Maldon, celebrates the extreme valour of Byrhtnoth, the leader of the …
St Erkenwald
An ancient tomb is discovered deep in the foundations of St Paul’s. It is decorated with a mysterious inscription in letters of gold. The body within is unblemished, dressed as a …
Robert Holcot, exegete
Robert Holcot (d. 1349) was a Dominican friar, most prominently connected with the convent in Oxford where he became a Doctor of Theology. Holcot is perhaps most famous today, …
The Middle Dutch Brut
The earliest chronicle of England in Dutch is found in a series of chronicles published in 1480 by Jan Veldener, who had been William Caxton’s business partner in the Low …
The Old English Gnomic Poems Maxims I and Maxims II
Maxims I and Maxims II, which comprise a seemingly haphazard assortment of Old English poetic gnomes (sayings put into verse to aid memory), are intriguing yet mysterious …
A Companion to The Boke of Gostely Grace
The Boke of Gostely Grace is a Middle English translation of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary Mechthild of Hackeborn (1241–1298), a Benedictine/Cistercian nun at …