{"id":55827,"date":"2016-09-29T13:59:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/eleanor_parker-some_medieval_texts_for_michaelmas\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T13:59:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T13:59:02","slug":"eleanor_parker-some_medieval_texts_for_michaelmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55827","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor Parker&#8211;Some Medieval Texts for Michaelmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lo, we honour widely throughout the earth<br \/>\nthe high-angel&#8217;s tide in harvest,<br \/>\nMichael, as the multitude know,<br \/>\nfive nights after the equinox day.<\/p>\n<p>St Michael, dragon-slayer, guardian of humanity and weigher of souls, was immensely popular in the medieval period, and in this post are four pieces about St Michael by medieval English writers: a Latin sequence by the eighth-century Northumbrian scholar Alcuin; an English homily from c.990 by \u00c3\u2020lfric; a prayer in verse by John Lydgate (c.1370\u201d\u201cc.1451); and a homily by John Mirk (fl. c.1382\u201d\u201cc.1414). Illustrations are from English manuscripts in the British Library and from some churches I&#8217;ve recently visited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aclerkofoxford.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/09\/a-selection-of-st-michaels.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Prince of the citizens of heaven&#39;: Some Medieval Texts for Michaelmas <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/72cLCYes09\">https:\/\/t.co\/72cLCYes09<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dX3ugmMD4k\">pic.twitter.com\/dX3ugmMD4k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClerkofOxford\/status\/781388114338217984\">September 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lo, we honour widely throughout the earth the high-angel&#8217;s tide in harvest, Michael, as the multitude know, five nights after the equinox day. St Michael, dragon-slayer, guardian of humanity and weigher of souls, was immensely popular in the medieval period,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55827\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,186,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-church-history","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}