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.


Friday 10 February 2023

More on the spices from the Gribshunden


I posted recently in Late fifteenth century Scandinavian Court cuisine about the archaeological analysis of the spices found in the hold of the Gribshunden, the flagship of King Hans I of the Kalmar Union of the Scandinavian kingdoms, which sank in the waters of the Baltic in 1495. 

Having written that piece I have now found an article in Newsweek which gives much more detail about the spices, their variety, quantity and scarcity, and it is one which repays reading. It can be seen at Shipwreck of 500-year-old floating castle found to contain "thrilling haul"


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