Today is Good Friday, the day which commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. For today’s blogpost, I’ve decided simply to post and translate some Anglo-Saxon texts dedicated to the Holy Cross: a hymn, a poem, and two prayers. As my research is all about how texts were adapted and reused in different contexts, in each…
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The scribe, the editors, and the well-dressed Elizabethan: a day with an 11th-century psalter
As I mentioned in my post on an Old English confessional prayer, I recently visited the British Library to visit the manuscript known as Cotton Tiberius A. iii, which was a sort of ‘supporting actor’ in my thesis. A similar role was played by an eleventh-century psalter, known as the Eadui Psalter and with the…