A slow stroll through Narnia: re-reading “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
Over the last few months I’ve been reading through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, chapter by chapter, and …
Over the last few months I’ve been reading through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, chapter by chapter, and …
I’ve been rereading C.S. Lewis’ The Discarded Image today, sparked by a reread of Michael Ward’s work on planetary symbolism …
I’ve been giving some lectures on medieval literature this term, and it has required the enjoyable process of rereading bits …
Dr. Jenni Nuttall is a fellow of St. Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford. She has recently translated the …
After reading Lucy Allen’s lovely piece “Time Present and Time Past: Winter Reading for St Lucy’s Day”, I ended up …
Season finale. As the last episode suggested, Merlin is moving into a more traditional swords-and-sorcery mode of fantasy at this …
What do the people want? A combination of Lord of the Rings and Doctor Who. This seems to be the …
The film critic Mark Kermode (known to his fans as The Good Doctor, not to be confused with The Doctor, …
“Never before have the rulers of the Five Kingdoms come together in this way”, intones Uther to Arthur[1], standing on …
It is a dark and stormy night. Gaius is wandering around like a hippy version of Brother Cadfael saying things …