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.

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).

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