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.


Sunday, 15 June 2025

Arms and the Man


I have previously posted on occasion about arms and armour in the mediaeval period and about the way in which men would don their armour before combat.

Recently I came upon a series of what appeared to be very good videos about this subject, and reflecting different periods of history. They are from Alex The History Guy and draw upon archaeological discoveries for the earlier instances and in the later ones from surviving armour and from effigies as well as written evidence. The cover aspects of earlier and late Anglo-Saxon equipment, and the gradual transition towards full plate armour in the fifteenth  century. 

They seem to me well worth sharing with my readers, and I also see that he has others on his site about military dress in later centuries.

The ones I have viewed can be seen, in chronological order, at:

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