Once I Was A Clever Boy
Showing posts with label King Philip V. Show all posts
Showing posts with label King Philip V. Show all posts
Sunday, 20 November 2016

King John I of France

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Today is the seventh centenary of the death of King John I of France. The son of King Louis X and his Queen Clemence of Hungary, he was bor...
Friday, 9 October 2015

St Denis and his companions

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Today is by tradition the feast of the mid-third century Bishop of Paris St Denis and his companions in martyrdom SS. Rusticus of Paris and...
Thursday, 10 April 2014

The reissue of Druon's "The Accursed Kings"

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A friend kindly forwarded to me the link to an article in the BBC Magazine about the way in which Maurice Druon's set of seven novels ...
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Once I Was A Clever Boy
I am a Catholic and a historian based in Oxford, where I am a member of Oriel College. My research, for a long delayed D.Phil., is a study of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln in the second decade of the fifteenth century. I also work as a freelance tutor in History and as an independent tour guide. I was received into the Church in 2005 and am a Brother of the External Oratory of St Philip Neri at the Oxford Oratory.
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