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Hidden Text in England's Oldest Printed Bible Revealed

Edit Yahoo Daily News 24 Mar 2016
Long-hidden annotations in a Henry VIII-era Bible reveal the messy, gradual process of the Protestant Reformation. The handwritten notes were just discovered in a Latin Bible published in 1535 by Henry VIII's printer. There are only seven surviving copies of this edition, which features a preface by the king himself ... Religious history ... John Wycliffe was the first person to attempt a full English translation, in the 1380s....

The psychology of a peninsula

Edit The Economist 23 Jul 2015
IN THE 1380s, half a century after King Edward II’s painful demise—rectally impaled on a red-hot poker—John Trevisa, a Cornish scholar, was trying to translate a Latin account of the incident into plain English ... ....

Media advisory: Medieval lit expert discusses 'Game of Thrones' themes (KU - The University of Kansas)

Edit noodls 08 Jun 2015
(Source. KU - The University of Kansas) ... The finale of the Emmy-nominated show, which is based on novels by author George R. R. Martin, is scheduled to air June 14 ... She is author of the 2014 book "Feminized Counsel and the Literature of Advice in England, 1380-1500.". Q ... Schieberle ... Q ... Q ... 1380s) begins with a knight who rapes a maiden he encounters in the forest, causing his punishment and, perhaps, the reform of his character ... Q....

The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School by David Turner – review

Edit The Guardian 16 Apr 2015
An affectionate history of British public schools that fails to address the divisive elitism they represent. For the rich ones … Harrow school. Photograph. Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images. Jenny Turner. Thursday 16 April 2015 07.00 BST. Like contemplating Hamlet without the ghost ... in 1379 he established New College, Oxford, to repopulate the priesthood, then added Winchester as a feeder for it in the early 1380s ... More reviews Topics ... ....

Review – The Poet’s Tale: Chaucer and the Year that Made the Canterbury Tales

Edit The Irish Times 08 Mar 2015
The collection amassed in Chaucer’s Life-Records amounts to 493 items ... There is a major body of earlier work, as well, from The Book of the Duchess, in the late 1360s, to his most satisfactorily completed single work, Troilus and Criseyde, probably from the mid 1380s ... A Critical Biography (1992) ... In Strohm’s view an audience for writing in English was as yet limited, even for a masterpiece such as Troilus and Criseyde in the 1380s....

National Gallery of Art Announces Historic Acquisition of More Than 6,000 Works of Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Plus Upcoming Installations at the Gallery and the Corcoran (National Gallery of Art)

Edit noodls 05 Feb 2015
(Source. National Gallery of Art). Release Date. February 5, 2015 ... Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara, 1857. oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund) ... Boundary Markers ... The most outstanding work among the National Gallery of Art acquisitions is The Agony in the Garden, The Crucifixion, and the Descent into Limbo (1380s) created by Andrea di Vanni with egg tempera and gold leaf on wood panel ... C ... H....

Carswell hails Ukip’s 14th-century election guru, John Wycliffe

Edit The Guardian 10 Oct 2014
That honour, instead, went to John Wycliffe, a 14th-century theologian, scholar and clerical troublemaker who translated the Bible into English in the 1380s, and argued for much of his life against the power and wealth of the pope – a somewhat edgy pastime that led to his bones being dug up and burned after his death, before being chucked into a river in Leicestershire ... “So, too, in our own time ... ....

Douglas Carswell invokes John Wycliffe, a ghost of politics past

Edit The Guardian 10 Oct 2014
Douglas Carswell, who told Ukip supporters in Clacton ... That honour, instead, went to John Wycliffe, a 14th-century theologian, scholar and clerical troublemaker who translated the Bible into English in the 1380s, and argued for much of his life against the power and wealth of the pope – a somewhat edgy pastime which led to his bones being dug up and burned after his death, before being chucked into a river in Leicestershire ... ....

£5m bid to reopen Coventry Charterhouse as visitor attraction

Edit BBC News 28 Jun 2014
The Charterhouse - otherwise known as St Anne's Priory - dates back to the 1380s but also contains buildings from the 15th and 16th Centuries The main Prior's House has been hardly altered since Elizabethan times and features intact wall paintings from the 15th and 16th Centuries Much of the large complex of buildings on the estate was ......

A Double Sorrow review – 'Shadowed by the mystery of real poetry'

Edit The Guardian 14 Mar 2014
Written in the 1380s, it was based on Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, which had appeared around 50 years earlier, and whose own sources included the 12th-century French Le ......

From Early Christian Saint to Chaucer: How Modern Valentine's Day Came To Be (University of Dallas)

Edit noodls 14 Feb 2014
(Source. University of Dallas) From Early Christian Saint to Chaucer. How Modern Valentine's Day Came To Be. Published Date. February 13, 2014 ... The answer, as far as anyone can tell, is the medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Written in the 1380s, Chaucer's 700-line poem "The Parliament of Fowls" is widely credited by scholars to be the first existing work connecting Valentine's Day with romantic love ... (noodl....
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