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Beskrivning
This special edition of History of Universities, Volume XXXV/1, studies and reappraises the often ignored history of eighteenth-century Oxford, caught as it is between the upheavals of the Stuart century and the reformation of the Victorian era.
Guest Editors: Robin Darwall-Smith and Peregrine Horden.Robin Darwall-Smith is Archivist of University and Jesus Colleges, and a historian of Oxford.Peregrine Horden is a Fellow of All Souls College and a medieval historian.
Innehållsförteckning
Peregrine Horden: Preface 1: Robin Darwall-Smith: The problem of Georgian Oxford Part 1: Thought and Learning 2: Robin Darwall-Smith: In the centre and on the periphery: the paradox of Classics in Georgian Oxford 3: Judith Curthoys: Undergraduate studies and the collection books at Christ Church 4: Robin Darwall-Smith: Theology and religion in Georgian Oxford: a survey 5: Alastair Hamilton: Arabic studies in eighteenth-century Oxford 6: Mike Macnair: Eighteenth-century antecedents and rivals to Blackstone's Institutionalism 7: Anna Marie Roos: Keeping Natural Philosophy Alive in Eighteenth-Century Oxford: John Whiteside (1679-1729) and William Huddesford (1732-1772) Part 2: Arts and Letters 8: Matthew Craske: George Clarke's Oxford: The Patriotic Creation of a Monumental City 9: Anthony Geraghty: 'Gothick' and 'sollid': Hawksmoor's work at All Souls reconsidered 10a: Clare Bucknell: Edward Young in England 10b: Catriona Seth: Cross-Channel Memorialisation: Edward Young in France 11: Susan Wollenberg: Concert life in Georgian Oxford 12: Peregrine Horden: Oxford and Cambridge colleges as patrons of religious art in the eighteenth century Part 3: University Life 13: Norma Aubertin-Potter: The eighteenth-century servants of All Souls College, Oxford 14: Nigel Aston: The Great Survivor: Charles Butler, Earl of Arran, and the Oxford Chancellorship, 1715-1758
