Today I got across a really good, witty, realistic scientific article on didactics of higher education. The best, in fact, I have read so far during my involvement with that topic. And where was one of the two authors lecturing: at Oxford, where else. E.S., after all.
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November 16, 2009
Marrying for England
Posted by berenike under Christianity, History, Pious stuff, Scotland, St Andrews + Edinburgh, diarification, kulcher1 Comment
Today* is the feast of St Margaret, who wanted to be a nun but the rest of her refugee family, washed up with her in Edinburgh, explained to her that really it would significantly improve their security and future prospects and so on and so forth if she didn’t turn down the love-struck Malcolm III, seeing as he was the king. So Margaret married Malcolm, had eight children, and did many other things, as recounted by among others her fishy confessor.
Random Fact! Malcolm laid the foundation stone of Durham Cathedral (since he had some raiding and looting to do in the vicinity anyway).
The picture is from St Margaret’s Church in Dunfermline, a print by Polo-Scot Jurek Putter.** The same image is used in one of six small panels making up a small part of another, epic, print of St Margaret by the same artist, a copy of which Aelianus obtained through a quite amazing chain of providential events and gave to me some years ago. Unfortunately I don’t have a picture of it, but it is seated on the sofa across from me.
*Yes, o sad mad trads! Today! On account of my tie with a Scottish diocese, and the Scottish dioceses have always, afaik, had St Margaret today. She was in the summer only in the universal calendar. (I could be wrong, I am going by my crumbling 1950s missal.)
** More weird coincidences. Here is a documentary (in verrrrry Scots accent) about Putter’s work – apparently his dad was from Lwów/L’viv/Lvov. Now, that does not make him Ukrainian, and indeed he was not. Still, Lvov is Where the Ukrainians Are, and last year I came across someone claiming that St Margaret had Ukrainian ancestry. So there you go.
October 15, 2009
Nice.
Here, from Tepidus.
[Early evening update: er woops. That was not a link to a National Geographic article about marine bogies. This is. For much nicer marine things, you could look at the Amazing Fish here. Or here - towards the end you can see the odd way they swim - is vertical the right way up for them, or horizontal?]
October 13, 2009
“God has not called me to be successful, but to be faithful.”
October 7, 2009
Dead giant mechanical spider ...
Any guesses? Photo pinched some time ago from Lavinka. Who I think can see my windows from her windows.
September 23, 2009
Yippee! I’m looking at wizzair already! I missed the Pope in Poland, am not going to miss this one!
{And thanks to Tepidus, we appear to be the first britblog to report this. Scoop!)
September 23, 2009
Let’s pray for him.
September 12, 2009
The Sisters of the Gospel of Life welcomed a new postulant on Tuesday. Their blog post on the occasion claims the text of the ceremony is on the blog somewhere…
ad multos annos, Amanda 
September 7, 2009
Once more I am distracted from Buridan, usury, matters-to-arrange in this office and that, by the arrival of a volume faster-paced than The Existential Version of Classical Metaphysics, larger than The Little Book of Hugs, more gloriously illustrated, and on better paper, than the 1984 Polish samizdat edition of Bulhakov’s Three Islands, more reliable than The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, fuller of surprising plot twists than A Systematic Course in Formal Logic …
It is indeed all of those things, and I have been enjoying it very much indeed; from the initial pleasure of finding a book waiting for me after a week away from home, to that of pulling out a glorious fat hardback with a shiny dustjacket and just the right size of print and with pictures, to reading it and finding it to be also a good juicy read.
A review here, with links to other reviews.
THANK YOU to the lovely book fairy!
September 5, 2009
From the FB status of a friend from theology-studying days, now a baby religious and studying in Rome.
