Good Friday Alone

The Virgin Mary and Christ, in a Book of Hours of c.1510-20 (BL Add MS 35214, f. 27)

A Clerk of Oxford writes: For many of us this will be a solitary Good Friday, and so I've been thinking about the place of solitude - aloneness - in medieval imaginings of the story of Christ's Passion. This is a carol from the 16th century, an example of a very widespread poetic tradition giving voice to Mary's grief for her son, which takes the word alone as its refrain and keynote.

Alone alone alone alone

Sore I sigh and all for one.

To read on see: https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2020/04/good-friday-alone.html