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.


Sunday 28 October 2012

Queen Margaret I of Denmark




The reconstruction of Queen Margrethe I's golden gown

 
Image: durantextiles.com


Image:durantextiles.com/tumblt.com
There are several online articles about it and its fabric and about the making of the reconstruction which can be read here, here, here and here.
 
 

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