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.
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I am a Catholic and a historian based in Oxford, where I am a member of Oriel College. My research, for a long delayed D.Phil., is a study of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln in the second decade of the fifteenth century. I also work as a freelance tutor in History and as an independent tour guide.
I was received into the Church in 2005 and am a Brother of the External Oratory of St Philip Neri at the Oxford Oratory.
Durandus on the Minor Litanies
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*The following excerpts are taken from book VI, chapter 102 of William
Durandus’ treatise on the Divine Offices.*
On the three days before the feast of the ...
Marx and Sparx
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... or, as they like nowadays to be known, Emmandess, are a well-known
English Departmental Store, founded in the Dawn of History by Mr Marks and
Mr Spence...
Saint Thomas More and the Princes in the Tower
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My local PBS station is airing episodes of *Lucy Worsley Investigates* and
I watched the first installment on the Princes in the Tower Sunday night.
The ...
Enjoying the Feast of the Holy Trinity
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The weather in London today finally broke into just above 20 degrees
centigrade, or just tipping 70 if you are using old money. It was a
beautiful day to...
The Lord’s descent into the underworld
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At Matins/the Office of Readings on Holy Saturday the Church gives us this
'ancient homily', I find it incredibly moving, it is about Holy Saturday,
about ...
Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Grace of Cambridge
The statue in the medieval Dominican friary in Cambridge and its place in the life of both the University and of the local community is introduced in Our Lady of Grace in Cambridge
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