Once I Was A Clever Boy
Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Screens in ancient and medieval churches

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The  Liturgical Arts Journal  has an article by Shawn Tribe which is a useful introduction to the symbolic and actual role of screens in chu...

How not to report Royal events

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In the modern world we are surrounded by online reporting of events great and small. Royal lives and events are not only examined and discus...

The Queen has abdicated, Long live The King!

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Thanks to the multiplicity of internet television channels I was able to watch the events In Copenhagen last Sunday as Queen Margrethe II ab...
Friday, 12 January 2024

Durandus on Epiphany

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According to traditional usage we are still in the Epiphany Octave, so it is still appropriate to cast our minds back to the Feast itself. T...
Thursday, 11 January 2024

A Roman crucifixion from near Cambridge

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Last night I watched on BBC 4 The Cambridgeshire Crucifixion  which revealed the examination of a skeleton of a man who had died by crucifix...

Medieval Beaumaris

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The Past  website has an interesting article from Current Archaeology  about an excavation in the charming town of Beaumaris on the Isle of ...
Wednesday, 10 January 2024

Henry Symeonis

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With a new academic Term looming and members of the University of Oxford returning to the city I think we can be confident that amongst them...
Tuesday, 9 January 2024

Dates for your diary?

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Many of us tend, I imagine, around New Year to be marking up our diaries and calendars with dates and events to remember in the coming year....
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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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