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.


Tuesday, 14 July 2020

In passing


I glean from the New Liturgical Movement that today is the anniversary of Pope Pius V’s 1570 Bull Quo Primum, as can be seen at The 450th Anniversary of Quo Primum 

I see also that Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment has been following the latest discoveries about the dating of the Cerne Abbas figure, which I noted the other day. His pithy and pertinent post on the subject can be read at The Cerne Abbas Giant


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