Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment
24 April 2024
Sir Thomas ... and three centuries later (2)
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So Thomas Blackburn iniquitously secreted away alabaster tablets within Ripon church; subsequently, he denied having removed them from the c...
23 April 2024
Meet the Reverend Thomas Blackburn, of Ripon (1)
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In March, 1570, there was an unusual spectacle in the mighty Church of S Peter at Ripon (one of great S Wilfrid's great foundations). ...
22 April 2024
Oxford Terms
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Many people will know that Oxford has three terms (Michaelmas; Hilary; Trinity); each of them contains eight weeks of "Full Term",...
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20 April 2024
Kissing; the English Way
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The author of the medieval English religious play the Resurrexio Domini sometimes gives the impression of introducing Kisses as amatter of...
19 April 2024
Roomy?
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It's many decades since I visited the Episcopalian Church of Old S Paul's in Edinburgh ... but my recollection is of learning that, ...
18 April 2024
"Textual Criticism"
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I always explain this phrase when I use it, because it is so commonly misunderstood. So many folks think that it means the careful, critical...
17 April 2024
IOANNES:II:D:G:ANG:FRA:SCO:HIB:ET:TUNISIAE:REX:FIDEI:DEFENSOR ... ??
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Yeah ... Tunisia ... I'm not making this up ... English Catholics regarded 'Mary Queen of Scots' as their lawful Queen; at leas...
16 April 2024
Which Ocean was the real one?
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We Englishmen ... I won't presume to speak for the Scots ... are extremely (nowadays everybody says incredibly ) insular. This fault was...
15 April 2024
A King for England??
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What to do about a Queen Regnant who lacks a husband? I am writing, of course about, a woman who in her own right holds the rights to the C...
14 April 2024
THOSE WIDE WOUNDS
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During the long resistance of the English people to the imposition by Tudor despots of schism and heresy, a dispossessed monk wrote a hymn ...
13 April 2024
Multilayered Successes!!!
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As we successfully generate more 'ecological' energy, will such an increase stimulate a greater demand for and use of energy?
12 April 2024
Callimachus, Caravaggio ... (2)
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In 1605, what is arguably Caravaggio's finest picture appeared upn the scene in S Augustine's Church in Rome. It was a painting of t...
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