Richard L. Hewitt

Classical and Medieval interests, also African. Quondam Teacher at Kamuzu Academy, Malawi. Amanuensis to @notker_balbulus and @phil_marmot.

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

“We must keep the important things out of the hands of barbarians. Things like…the universities. Both of them.”

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[Richard L. Hewitt @rl_hewitt]

Malawi Broadcasting Corporation. Its initial report on our Shakespeare Schools Festival.

https://t.co/bKVR6hP7Wc

[Beatrice Groves @beatricegroves1]

The beautiful burnt orange of fox and cubs🦊
It was introduced to the UK in the 17th century and is now naturalised - it seems to me to particularly common in churchyards.
The best-named and most beautiful hawkweed!

[Notker Balbulus @notker_balbulus]

For St Peter and St Paul. "At last, when all barbarians lie vanquished, you twain proceed to the topmost citadel, to compel the warring twins, placated now, under Christ’s yoke. There the savagery of Nero had condemned thee, o Peter and Paul, of apostles the princes, victors in so many battles, to deaths of divers sort."

[Notker Balbulus @notker_balbulus]

For St Peter and St Paul. "To the love in which He holds thee, o Peter, Christ granted it to tread with thy foot upon the sea; He made the shadow of thy body to be remedy for the sick and the weak. Thee, o Paul, whose word is seed, Christ granteth to defeat the philosophers with His voice; thou, o Paul, didst win many victories for Christ throughout the nations."

[Medievalists.net @Medievalists]

Leoba: England’s Earliest Female Poet https://t.co/nQASPIrqpo #Leoba

[Beatrice Groves @beatricegroves1]

Honeyed drifts of Lady's bedstraw - I wish you could smell it!🌼
The name comes from #folklore that Mary gave birth on a bed stuffed with this soft, scented flower in honour of which it changed from white to gold🌼
Hence (Our) Lady's Bedstraw💛👑💛
#SundayYellow #FolkloreSunday

[Beatrice Groves @beatricegroves1]

Pretty in pink🌸 #FlowersOnFriday
Centaury, one of the loveliest wildflowers, is named after the herbalist Chiron, the only centaur who deigned to pass on his knowledge to mankind🩷
He is the model for Firenze, the centaur who teaches #HarryPotter🌸⚡️🌸
https://t.co/cVA6FKeNYT

[Richard L. Hewitt @rl_hewitt]

Domasi Institute of Management and Technology rehearses the Danish play c. 2 in the morning, Lilongwe (Area 25).

[Richard L. Hewitt @rl_hewitt]

Mua Deaf is also performing (in Sign) an adaptation of The Merchant of Venice. 'Katapila' is a money lender. 'Mtakataka' is the closest trading centre to Mua.

https://t.co/i1ujUEBgJl

[Richard L. Hewitt @rl_hewitt]

Mua School for the Deaf rehearses a poem for the Shakespeare Festival:

I like my school
A cool place of Excellency
With kind teachers
Preparing me to read and write
For academic success
I like my school.

I like my school
A warm zone of competency
With vocational skills
Carpentry, tailoring and computing
For self-reliance
I like my school.

[Richard L. Hewitt @rl_hewitt]

The seventh Shakespeare Schools Festival - Malawi.

[Notker Balbulus @notker_balbulus]

For St John the Baptist. "Thee, who preparest the hearts of the faithful, lest God should find anything false or slippery in them, thee we ask, that thou shouldst be zealous to unloose our crimes and wickedness with constant prayer, so that He Himself, satisfied, might vouchsafe alway to visit His faithful and to make His dwelling in them and might desire to clothe us in the fleece of the Lamb, which thou hadst indicated with thy finger to take away the sins of the world, so that we might deserve, joined with angels, to follow Him in white garment through the most shining gate, o John, Friend of Christ!"

[Beatrice Groves @beatricegroves1]

St John's Wort 💛
So named as it was believed most efficacious if harvested today - #MidsummerDay & the Feast of John the Baptist ☀️😇☀️
In the Doctrine of Signatures its sunshine yellow meant it was used in traditional medicine to ward off evil spirits💛

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

Tonight is Midsummer Eve, which was for centuries the traditional date for celebrating the summer solstice. It was once a high point of the festival year - a time of feasts, parades, ghosts, love, roses, and bonfires blazing in the short summer night.

[Beatrice Groves @beatricegroves1]

The joyous floral sunshine of 'eggs & bacon' - a favourite flower & flower-name🍳💛🥓🧡
It is also known as bird’s-foot-trefoil (after the shape of its seed pods & leaves)💛
Blue skies for #BlueMonday💙

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

Some beautiful phrases for the sun, from Old English poems:

rodores candel (candle of the firmament)
heofenes gim (jewel of the heavens)
æþeltungla wyn (joy of the noble stars)
swegles tapur (taper of the skies)
farende tungol (travelling star)
goldtorht sunne (gold-bright sun)

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

“A branch of flowering lime hangs above the roof”

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

'In June, when the jewel climbs up
highest in the year into the heavens,
brightest of stars...
At that time the fairest of lights
likes to gaze longer upon the earth,
to move more slowly across the meadows.'

Anglo-Saxon writers on the summer solstice: https://t.co/koxgcemjp7

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

'leohtre and berhtre þonne se leoma sie
sunnan on sumera, þonne swegles gim,
hador heofontungol, hlutrost scineð.'

The summer sun and the inner brightness of the mind, from the Old English translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy. https://t.co/J1cLgOdp8R