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.


Wednesday 30 October 2024

Trends in the Late Antique Wine Trade


The Mediterranean world has been and continues to be one with a more than passing interest in the creation and consumption of wine. Wine is intimately bound up with Mediterranean culture, a component from the earliest times.

Recent research has indicated what it is suggested were the leading or most marketed types of wine in the Late Antique world from the fourth to the seventh centuries. 

Two regions emerge, both in the Eastern Mediterranean. For quality wines the vinophile looked to Gaza, for the mass market to Cilicia and Cyprus.



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