*Wulfstan* does philology naked...

[highlyeccentric]

Well... etymology. And possibly not naked. But still, a girl can dream, right?

Throughout his sermons Wulfstan demonstrates not only an enthusiasm for etymology in a fashion typical of many medieval writers, but a particular fondness for defining technical terms by comparing Greek and Latin synonyms or Latin and English synonyms.
-Thomas N. Hall, "Wulfstan's Latin Sermons", in Wulfstan, Archbishop of York: The Proceedings of the Second Alcuin Conference, ed. Matthew Townend (Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2004), pp 93-140 (pp 105-6).

I knew I loved this man for a reason.
(Wulfstan, that is. Not Thomas Hall, who is nevertheless pretty cool.)