Thursday, 17 October 2013
Light Such a Candle
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scriptorium/2010/10/martyrdom-of-latimer-and-ridley
Remembering Ridley and Latimer.
Saturday, 12 October 2013
Cats and Heresy in Medieval Europe
http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/02/why-cats-were-hated-in-medieval-europe/
Again off-topic, but of interest to those who study heresy and persecution. It's worth remembering that Chaucer portrays a pampered and recognizably modern domestic pussycat.
Again off-topic, but of interest to those who study heresy and persecution. It's worth remembering that Chaucer portrays a pampered and recognizably modern domestic pussycat.
Reading the Bard aloud, and in contemporary pronunciation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/william-shakespeare/10372964/Shakespeare-read-in-Elizabethan-accent-reveals-puns-jokes-and-rhymes.html
This is a trifle off-topic, but many Tyndalians are passionate Shakespearians. This story also ties in with the recent release of the British Library's recording of the Gospel according to Matthew (by WT).
This is a trifle off-topic, but many Tyndalians are passionate Shakespearians. This story also ties in with the recent release of the British Library's recording of the Gospel according to Matthew (by WT).
Monday, 7 October 2013
WT -- we remember
On this date:
In 1536, English theologian and scholar William Tyndale, who was the first to translate the Bible into Early Modern English, was executed.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/10/05/4533092/today-in-history.html#storylink=cpy
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