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.


Saturday 28 August 2021

Chroniclers of St Albans exhibition


My blogging friend Zephyrinus had a recent post about an exhibition at the Museum in St Albans about the Abbey’s long and fruitful tradition of monks who were also writers and compilers of chronicles. This draws upon the British Library website as the Library has been a significant lender to the exhibition.



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