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walking the Mean Streets of Medieval York
walking the Mean Streets of Medieval York
Posted on December 28, 2013 by candacerobbbooks
I just came across this delightfully silly bit in Kathleen Walker-Meikle’s book Medieval Pets (Boydell Press 2012). If you’re daunted by middle English, read it aloud and I think you’ll understand all of it.“In a manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales from Barking Abbey in… Continue Reading “A Catte ther was”
Posted on November 4, 2013 by candacerobbbooks
I have just received the new DVD-ROM published by the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, English Cathedrals and Monasteries. For several hours I’ve been happily exploring case studies of individual abbeys and monasteries (including Barking Abbey, featured in both The King’s… Continue Reading “English Cathedrals and Monasteries–A New DVD-ROM”
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