Galba A. xiv: the Cinderella of medieval prayerbooks

I research medieval prayerbooks.  When I say that, it conjures up an image of a gorgeous, multicoloured, exquisitely-decorated Book of Hours.  Like this one: Unfortunately, they’re not all like that.  Some of them look more like this: That is London, British Library Cotton Galba A. xiv, an eleventh-century English manuscript which, for convenience’s sake, I…

Anglo-Saxon detox diets

One of my New Year’s resolutions for this year was to write at least two blogposts a month, which I have managed to keep so far.  It’s probably easier than embarking on some kind of unforgiving health regime, like one of those detox diets which some people take up.  Whatever people might say about juice…