Now! Then! Source: Greeley, After the Horror: Traumatic Loss and the Search for Meaning in Alcuin of York’s Writings About Lindisfarne and Northumbria (2020)

June-Ann Greeley. 2020. After the Horror. Art and Violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Ed. Robert G. Sullivan and Meriem Pagès. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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8 June 0793: Alcuin of York, a leading figure in the Carolingian Renaissance, reflects in a poem on the devastation this day of Lindisfarne by Vikings

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Now! Then! is an almanac portraying Yorkshire on this day. Now! lists modern happenings in the heavens and on earth. Then! consists roughly of 940 historical serendipities (755K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,600 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,766 subjects, such as (automated list!) Leeds, York, West Riding of Yorkshire, Church of England, London, Sheffield, Horse, Bradford, poetry, Kingston upon Hull ... Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder has been compiling and coding Now! Then! The Yorkshire Almanac at bedtime to educate himself about his new home since moving from Hackney to Headingley in April 2021. It will soon be available in printed and e-book editions. You can also book a performance with barrel organ of The Yorkshire Almanac Songbook.

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