Will Langland tells how after the crucifixion, the soul of Christ
went down to Hades to fetch Piers the Ploughman and the rest of hopeless humanity.
byWilliam Langland?1340-?1400
Bible and Saints
Trial and Crucifixion
In ‘Do-bet,’ the sequel to his popular ‘Vision of Piers the Ploughman,’
Will Langland dreams about the trial of Jesus Christ before Pontius Pilate, and what followed.
byWilliam Langland?1340-?1400
Bible and Saints
The Triumphal Entry
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
Lives of the Saints
The Martyrdom of St Edmund the King
Edmund, King of the East Angles, is given a stark choice by the Viking warrior who has ravaged his realm.
byElfric of Eynsham955-1010
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
Lives of the Saints
‘To the Heights!’
St Gregory Palamas struggled all his life to stand up for the principle that the Bible means what it says.