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.


Monday 28 March 2022

More on Arthurian Age royal burials


I wrote in Royal burials from the Arthurian Age about the work which has been done recently to identify royal burials from the Arthurian era and thereby add to our understanding of the post-Roman British kingdoms and principalities.

Live Science has a further report about this research which gives additional contextual information and describes some specific sites. It also draws attention to aspects of the burials that are distinctive to their date and British location. 



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