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.


Thursday, 19 March 2026

The state of Medieval Teeth

 
The website of..Medievalists net this week has an article about  dental care in the medieval centuries, and the various powders used to clean and whiten teeth, and also to freshen the breath. The study can be seen at Did Medieval People Have Bad Teeth and Bad Breath?

Looking, by coincidence, at an article in a ‘serious’ newspaper we do not seem anything as far advanced over the past five centuries as we no doubt like to think.

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