Will Langland, a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, dreams he is looking
for his old friend Piers the Ploughman in Jerusalem just when Christ rides in on a donkey.
byWilliam Langland?1340-?1400
Extracts from Literature
On Top of the World
Maria Montessori takes some of her pupils up onto a roof terrace, and witnesses a eureka moment.
byDr Maria Montessori1870-1952
Bible and Saints
Gifts of the Spirit
Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf reminds us that God’s gifts to men are many and varied,
and nobody ever gets them all.
byCynewulffl. ?800
Norman Era
England’s Lost Civilisation
Orderic Vitalis regrets the passing of a society far more refined and advanced than that which supplanted it.
byOrderic Vitalis1075-?1142
Norman Era
Forgotten Melodies
When the Normans came in 1066 they deliberately destroyed English
chant, the last survivor in Western Europe of a tradition five centuries old.
byOrderic Vitalis1075-?1142
Sport and Sportsmen
A Chess Problem
Milne felt that chess was a game deserving of its place in the gallery of sports, but also that it had a drawback.
