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.


Thursday, 10 August 2023

The Hampton Court Conference of 1604


The Daily Telegraph has published as a separate article an extract from Gareth Russell’s new book on the history of Hampton Court. In it he recounts the circumstances around the 1604 Conference which was held there and which in turn led to the creation of the Authorised Version of the Bible that was eventually published in 1611.

Reading his account of the faction fighting within the Church of England reminds one of the battles of recent years within the General Synod. As with so many things in ecclesiastical  history what goes round comes round.

The very enjoyable extract can be read at Sodomy and theology: the feverish birth of the King James Bible


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