Quid gloriaris in malitia, qui potens es in iniquitate? Why do you glory in malice, you who are mighty in iniquity? Whatever the answer to the question posed in Psalm 51, it was important enough that medieval illuminators opened it with a glorious display page of its very own. This is because the 150 psalms…
Month: February 2017
An Old English Alphabet (part 2)
In my previous post, I took a journey through the Old English language, exploring a single word beginning with the letters from A to L, using each one to explain a particular characteristic of the language. Here, I will carry on from M until the end of the alphabet … M is for Micel Micel…
For the Wynn 