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.


Tuesday, 20 January 2026

Caesarea Maritima


A regular reader shared with me an online article from the Daily Mail about the ruins of Caesarea Maritima, the Roman era port on the coast of the Holy Land, and one of those sites where the archaeology of the Empire meets the archaeology and texts of the New Testament.

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