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, 13 January 2026

Septimus Severus living and in York


I came upon a video about the last years of the Emperor Septum Severus, which were spent in part in Eboracum, now York. This was following his move to Britannia in 208 and the city where he died and was cremated in 211. The suggestion by the video that his cremation site is still identifiable was new to me.

Wikipedia has a useful account of his life, and also quotes a contemporary account of his funeral ceremonies, at Septimius Severus



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