The main focus of my academic work is on private prayer in eleventh-century English religious institutions, and at least three-quarters of the prayers that I look at are in Latin. However, people did pray in their native language, and a number of prayers in Old English survive: some of these are known to be translations…
Month: June 2016
Welcome! A retrospective on eight months of blogging
Ever since WordPress very kindly featured my post Like, pray, share: Anglo-Saxon prayer memes on their ‘Discover’ page, I have gained a lot of new followers. This post is for those of you who would like a quick introduction to the kinds of things that I write about. My main subject of study is private…
Thinking of Syria in Anglo-Saxon England
It was the summer of my first year as a PhD student. I had just finished work on a chapter of my thesis, and was looking to move into another area of study; but I couldn’t really think where to go next, except that I wanted to look back to an earlier period of time and…
For the Wynn 