The Explainer: The leap year is 29th February, not 32nd December due to a Roman calendar quirk – and fastidious medieval monks
REBECCA STEPHENSON, associate professor of Old English at University College Dublin, explains in this article first published on The Conversation…
International designers respond to calls for a new reliquary to house the remains of Kentish saint
Norwich, UK Canadian, American and British designers have responded to an appeal to design a new reliquary to house the relics of St Eanswythe, the earliest verified remains of an English saint. The Church of England parish Church of St Mary and St Eanswythe in Folkestone, Kent, made the appeal after the lead container which houses the bones […]
Essay: Spectacular Anglo-Saxon burial uncovered – here’s what it tells us about women in seventh-century England
TOBY MARTIN, a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Oxford, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at what the discovery of the seventh century burial of a Christian woman in England’s Midlands reveals about wealthy Christian women of the period…
SIGNIFICANT SIGHTS: AN “UNEXPECTED PILGRIMAGE” TO THE OLDEST SURVIVING LATIN BIBLE
ROBERTA AHMANSON, in an article first published on Religion Unplugged, writes about a recent trip, first to England and then to Florence, to see a wonder of the ancient (Christian) world…
ESSAY: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR’S’, “DREAM” AND EMMETT TILL’S DEATH CAPTURE WARRING SOUL OF THE US
In an article first published on Religion News Service, author KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS, dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and the Canon Theologian at the Washington National Cathedral in the US, reflects on the “warring soul” of America…
Long-lost Dark Ages abbey may have been found in Scotland
The remains of a long-lost abbey founded in what is now south-east Scotland by a Northumbrian princess during the 7th century may have been discovered in an archaeological dig. Excavations led by DigVentures have unearthed traces of a huge circular ditch at a site in Coldingham where the abbey, founded by Aebbe, an Anglo-Saxon princess […]
ESSAY: GLASTONBURY – HOW ARCHAEOLOGY IS REVEALING NEW TRUTHS ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF BRITISH CHRISTIANITY
In an article first published on The Conversation, ROBERTA GILCHRIST, professor of archaeology at the University of Reading in the UK, explores how recent archaeological finds at Glastonbury are providing new insights into Christianity’s beginnings in the UK…