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 25 December 2015

And the Government shall be upon his shoulder



Martin Schongauer: The Nativity

The Nativity
Martin Schongauer c.1480 
Gemäldegalerie Berlin

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A happy blessed and joyful Christmas to all my readers
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