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, 5 November 2025

Tannhäuser


As someone who greatly appreciates the soaring and stimulating music as well as the mix of myth and legend in their plots of Wagner’s operas I was interested to read an online article from the LBV magazine about the basis, such as it can be ascertained,  for the legend of the thirteenth century figure of Tannhäuser.
 

The Wikipedia entry about him is quite short but it can be read in conjunction with the other article at Tannhäuser

Then sit back and find a recording or video of what is one of Wagner’s early masterpieces…


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