Insular Middle Ages

Some screenshots from the Crossing Borders Digital Resource. Featuring a selection of texts translated between Latin, French, Irish, Welsh, English & Norse (1200-1600); maps of transmission, articles and a database. Find the site here: tinyurl.com/y3b4cxrc #medievaltwitter

'At early morn the daylight springeth, The angels in heaven merry singeth, The world is blithe and glad. The fiends of hell are sorrowful and mad, Now the king, God's son, The strength of death hath overcome.' A 14th-century poem for Easter dawn: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2013/04/at-ear…

Easter Eve is traditionally the time of the Harrowing of Hell, when Christ descended into the underworld and set its captives free. This story inspired many powerful retellings in medieval literature and art, including this majestic Anglo-Saxon poem: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2015/04/open-w…

Reading set to celebrate medieval links with Spanish pilgrimage - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The best of trees began to speak words: 'It was long ago – I remember it yet – that I was cut down at the edge of a forest, removed from my root.' In the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Dream of the Rood', the Cross recalls the Crucifixion: plough.com/en/topics/cult…

Today is the feast of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, 'Lady Day'. In England it was once the spring quarter-day, when contracts would begin and servants took new jobs, and until 1752 it was also the start of the New Year. A day for new beginnings, new life of many kinds.

Event: ASNC Research Seminar: Pau Blanco Rios (ASNC, Cambridge), Exploring the parallels between ‘Lebor Gabála Érenn’ and Isidore’s ‘Historia gothorum’ asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/?p=2909

Event: ASNC Research seminar: Dr Nicholas Thyr (QUB), Middle Irish Homilies and the “Hiberno-Latin” Exegetical Tradition asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/?p=2910

Still featured #Cardiff @Waterstones @CathAMClarke !

Can anyone with better eyes (or legal terminology knowledge) than me, decipher the first word here? From a register of wills, Ireland, 1830s. Most entries have a £sum (value of the estate) in this column, but a few, like this, have an entry in the format [illegible]+see+year(s)

Today is the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, known in medieval England as 'Our Lady Day in harvest'. An Anglo-Saxon version of a popular legend about the end of Mary's life on earth, in which a much-loved woman reaches the harvest of her days: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2017/08/as-sun…

My first RTÉ Brainstorm article is out! Find out why we have a lot to learn from Irish women :))

@JoshHochschild Yes, as it turns out!

Saint John Henry Newman helped the Church to understand Her own mind. Some Newman anniversaries are coming up in August (11th, died 1890), September (19th, beatified 2010), and October (13th, canonized 2019). Will 2025 be the year he is proclaimed a Doctor of the Church?

The Harrowing of Hell: Christ bending over to pull souls out of Hellmouth and trampling Satan underfoot. #HolySaturday BL Cotton MS Tiberius C VI; the 'Tiberius Psalter'; 11th century; (?) Old Minster, Winchester; f.14r @BLMedieval

News: In Our Time programme on the Battle of Clontarf features Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/?p=2865

It's 25 March - the day everything happened

25 Mar: The Annunciation, Italian, follower of Melozzo da Forlì, ca. 1490 (V&A Museum, London)

We look forward to hosting tonight's documentary screening of Treasure From the Bog, followed by an 'In Conversation' with the Library’s interim Head of Preservation and Conservation, Dr. John Gillis and Dr. Rachel Moss at the @TLRHub. #SoldOut #FaddanMorePsalter #Conservation

@ConorMcDonough4 She's such a fascinating person - have you seen this interview from 2003? discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/QualiBank/Docu…

It's the eve of Michaelmas, the great feast of St Michael and All Angels - an invocation of the powers of light as the year turns towards the darker days of autumn. Here's a thread on Michaelmas daisies, geese, moons, and other namesakes of the angels' feast.

Examines how writers set about distinguishing between the Welsh & the other groups of people inhabiting the island of Britain through the use of names, attention to linguistic difference, and the writing of history & origin legends. #medievalhistory buff.ly/3yF5L0D