Winters in the World
A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

This is a niche book that took me almost a year to read appropriately. It is the kind of book that makes you want to pull out Our Island Story and in fact, it has been a great companion to Rebecca Fraser’s The Story of Britain. Of course, you could say this book was haunted by some of the writings o......more

'Winters in the World' is a lyrical journey through the Anglo-Saxon year, witnessing the major festivals and the turning of the seasons through the eyes of the poets. It is a beautiful, charming, and descriptive voyage into what, to many of us, seems a very distant past. But in venturing forth, the......more

I loved this book! Though it’s a history book, it has a devotional quality to it because so much of the Anglo-Saxon year became integrated with the Christian Year as Christianity spread throughout England. I’m on a serious quest to learn more about the liturgical year and integrate it into my own li......more

Seeing the world through old Englisċ eyes in a heavily secularised modern age is no easy feat. Nevertheless, Eleanor Parker, my favourite medievalist and author of the remarkable ‘A Clerk of Oxford’ blog (2008-2021) lovingly and fearlessly guides us through a range of writings from extant manuscript......more

Magnificent and unexpectedly gripping. This book spoke to me on many levels—aesthetically, theologically, agriculturally, historically—weaving together everything from nature to liturgy, from domestic life to poetry. It presents a beautiful portrait of interior life in Anglo-Saxon England, how every......more