The oratorio, telling the story of the life of Christ, is a musical setting of texts selected by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible and the Coverdale Psalter, with Part 1 telling the ...
In Latin he read out loud: "Item, a binding with the psalter of St Thomas, bound in silver gilt, decorated with jewels…" As he heard these words, de Hamel says he had "one of those sudden heart ...
V.M. Braganza is a book historian and literary critic of women's writing during the English Renaissance. The 1830 account details an eerie encounter with a stranger who predicted the death of the ...