Once I Was A Clever Boy: Varna Crusade

Once I Was A Clever Boy

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Showing posts with label Varna Crusade. Show all posts

Sunday, 10 November 2024

Remembering the battle of Varna in 1444

Every year this point in November with Remembrance Day and the anniversary of the 1918 Armistice focuses the thoughts of most of us on the c...

Monday, 10 November 2014

The Crusade of Varna

A conversation with one of my students a few weeks ago reminded me that the 570th anniversary of the Crusade of Varna, which culminated in...

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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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