Oxford Historical Society New Series – Serie

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Cartularies from the Benedictine monastery of Abington Abbey that shed light on medieval lifeThe two cartularies are Bodleian Lyell (209 leaves compiled according to the editor’s revised dating, not before c. 1350) and Chatsworth (167 leaves, of the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century) printed in their original arrangements. The introduction includes a general critique by C.F. Slade.

Domestic accounts of the first fully self-governing college of the University of OxfordVolume in the new series of the Oxford Historical Society examining the accounts of Merton College.

A precious guide to the inscriptions found in Oxford University’s All Souls CollegeMonumental inscriptions are not only important to genealogists and family historians, providing as they do information on the subjects life and death, including dates. They also offer a window into the lives of the distinguished individuals who merited burial within All Souls College Oxford, through the words chosen to remember and celebrate them in death.

Analysis of the organisation of Oxford University in the early 16th century followed by part of the text of the University register of congregationsThe register includes invaluable details about daily life at the university, including sanctions, wages, books and libraries. Religious life is also included in the records, along with information on sermons and ceremonies as well as more earthly concerns such as meals, hobbies, supplies, building maintenance and accounting details.

Analysis of the organisation of Oxford University in the early 16th century followed by part of the text of the University register of congregationsThe register includes invaluable details about daily life at the university, including sanctions, wages, books and libraries. Religious life is also included in the records, along with information on sermons and ceremonies as well as more earthly concerns such as meals, hobbies, supplies, building maintenance and accounting details.

An absorbing collection of documents that bring to life the early history of Oxford’s University College. The volume also includes full notes and an introduction as well as Latin texts with facing translations into English.

An absorbing collection of documents that bring to life the early history of Oxford’s University CollegeThe volume also includes full notes and an introduction as well as Latin texts with facing translations into English.

This latest volume in the series of Merton Annals covers a turbulent time in the college's history, including the siege of Oxford.This volume continues the series of Merton annals published by the Oxford Historical Society, beginning in 1483. This volume, dealing with the main part of the seventeenth century, contains both a transcript of the (mainly Latin)register, and a long introduction discussing college development in this very disturbed period, culminating in Civil War, the siege of Oxford, and the imposition of Cromwellian government on the university.

Edition, with full explanatory material, of the documents concerning the building of All Souls, Oxford: a vital source for our knowledge of the period.The accounts covering the construction of All Souls, Oxford, in the five years from its foundation in 1438 are among the most important documentary sources for English medieval building history, and provide an almost unique recordof the physical creation of an Oxford college. They are here published in full for the first time, with commentary and analysis by the late Simon Walker. Supplementary material includes plans and documentation of the site, a description of the buildings, and an inventory of the college rooms in the sixteenth century.Simon Walker was Professor of History, University of Sheffield; Julian Munby is head of Buildings Archaeology at Oxford Archaeology.

Full biographical accounts of the members of St John's College Oxford give much new evidence for academic life of the period.This volume comprises a register of all who were academically of St John's College, Oxford, from its foundation in 1555 until 1660, as well as of a number of men otherwise associated with it. It includes many figures of nationalimportance, among them William Laud, William Juxon, Edmund Campion, and Bulstrode Whitelocke, scholarly translators of the Bible, five future earls, and many Members of Parliament. The biographies, based on a very wide rangeof sources, amplify and correct existing work and identify many previously unknown St John's men. The introduction draws on this new research to provide a richer and more nuanced portrayal of an early-modern Oxford college than any so far attempted - and, since the College was both a Catholic Marian foundation and the institution in which Laud spend much of his life, makes a significant contribution to an understanding of the ramifications of early modernEnglish religious loyalties. The College's involvement in early academic drama in Oxford also receives special attention, as do its many Shakespearean connections (both family and Warwickshire affinity). An extensive Glossary provides essential supplementary guidance to the workings of the early-modern academic world. Andrew Hegarty gained his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford; his research is on the history of European universities in theearly modern period.

Edition of records of Oxford apprentices provides valuable evidence for historians.Oxford greatly expanded and flourished under the Tudors, as the reviving University provided a growing body of consumers and trade for shopkeepers and craftsmen. They needed apprentices - and in huge numbers, as the material inthis volume demonstrates. It calendars the enrolments of over two thousand apprenticeship contracts made during this period; they are a familiar source for social and economic history and genealogy, but the Oxford material, in both quantity and detail, is quite exceptional. Moreover, sixteenth-century enrolments are much fuller than their more familiar seventeenth-century successors, containing miscellaneous information of great interest, notably lists ofworking tools, details of journeymen's wages, and stipulations about apprentices' behaviour.The data is discussed in an Introduction which re-examines the apprenticeship system on the basis of the unusually plentiful statistics, throwing new light on such matters as length of service, payment of premiums, and the rates of career failure and success. Oxford recruited apprentices from an astonishingly wide area; their places of origin are identified and mapped, and an analysis of their social and geographical origins breaks new ground in the field of migration studies. More prosaically the calendar provides the genealogist and local historian with the names, parentage, and places of origin of thousands of young men from all over England and Wales - crucial raw material for much-needed further research.on the later movements of qualified apprentices. Alan Crossley is a member of the modern history faculty, University of Oxford.

Edition, with full notes and apparatus, of a text which sheds much light on university affairs at the time.The Warden's Punishment Book is a record of punishments imposed on the Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford, for minor infringements of the statutes and of College discipline, from its inception in 1601 until 1851. It is a uniquedocument in terms of its scope and detail among the College records of Oxford and Cambridge and provides significant insights into the daily life and personal relationships of such an institution during the early modern period.This volume presents an edition of the text of the Punishment Book, with a substantial biographical register detailing the careers of those mentioned as punishers or punished. An introduction explains the significance and context of the Punishment Book within collegiate, university, and social history.Scott Mandelbrote is Fellow, Perne Librarian, and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, he was formerly Fellow and Sub-Warden of All Souls College, Oxford; John H.R. Davis is an Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, of which he was Warden between 1995 and 2008. He is an anthropologist and was Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universityof Oxford, and, before that, at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Edition - with English translation where appropriate - of crucial documents from the early history of Oxford's University College.University College claims to be the oldest College in Oxford, tracing its origins to an endowment of 1249. This book brings together the great majority of pre-1550 documents, other than its account rolls, from the College's archives, providing a sourcebook for its early history. The first part contains editions of texts with facing translations into English, including the College's medieval statutes, and documents about its early buildings; the second deals with medieval deeds relating to the College's properties in Oxfordshire, provided as calendars, since they are considerably more formulaic. The volume also includes full notes and an introduction.Robin Darwall-Smith isArchivist of Magdalen College; he has made extensive contributions to the history of both University College and Magdalen College.

This edition of the building accounts is put into a wider context with a study of its founder, Richard Fox.Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was founded in 1517 by Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester. He intended it to educate students in classical Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and their literature; Erasmus praised it as a scholarly achievement, and a beacon of Renaissance classical learning.The heart of this book is an edition of the original fortnightly building site accounts of 1517-1518, giving us a window onto a late-medieval building site, with its detailsof early sixteenth-century building materials, craft techniques, project management skills and working conditions, including siesta periods and sub-contracting. The introduction describes Fox's long road to 1517: his motives far more complicated than a bishop looking for worldly fame and heavenly reward. Born into a Lincolnshire yeoman, Fox studied law at Oxford, rebelled against Richard III and became Henry VII's closest political adviser. Taken together,they provide a detailed account of the foundation of the College, both literal and metaphorical.

A delightful and often witty description of the Oxford colleges in the eighteenth century.Shepilinda's Memoirs of the City and University of Oxford is a light-hearted but valuable manuscript account of the Oxford colleges in 1738, written by a lively and engaging young woman who had a measure of social access to many of them. Elizabeth Sheppard (pen-name "Shepilinda") was accompanied on her visits by a friend and confidante with the nickname "Scrippy", for whom the resulting memoir and appended collection of poems are intended as a gift. Elizabeth clearly had a facility for getting people to talk to her quite freely, together with a quick grasp of the information she received; she also had a lively, sometimes mischievous, sense of humour. The work, frequently unflattering to the dons (the wife of one is described as "ever a Moving Dumpling"), is entertaining, informative, and also unusual, in that women's voices are rarely heard at that date.The Memoirs are presented here with anintroduction and notes, providing information on the people involved and setting them into context. Until his retirement GEOFFREY NEATE worked at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, with particular responsibility for computerising the catalogue entries for books published before 1920.