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, 23 August 2022

More on Cantre’r Gwaelod


In my recent post Evidence for Cantre’r Gwaelod? I wrote about a new theory that the medieval Gough Map preserves evidence for two now lost islands in Cardigan Bay during the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries at least.

The Independent has an article that does set out a little more about this latest theory and even suggests that it might not have been until towards 1600 that the islands could be said to have definitely disappeared.




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