Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Friday, 22 March 2013

Galician Romanesque


Recently John Dillon posted this picture on the Medieval Religion discussion group of a window at the Monastery of Santa Cristina de Ribas de Sil, in Galicia, and speculated if it indicated evidence for a cult of Mickey Mouse in medieval Spain...



On a more serious note there are a series of views of this fine Romanesque church here.





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