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The University of Oxford was a medieval wonder. After its foundation in the late 12th century it made a crucial contribution to the core syllabus of all medieval universities - the study of the liberal arts law, medicine and theology - and attracted teachers of international calibre and fame. The ideas of brilliant thinkers like innovative translator of Greek Robert Grosseteste, pioneering philosopher Roger Bacon and reforming Christian humanist John Colet redirected traditional scholasticism and helped usher in the Renaissance. In her concise and much-praised new history, G R Evans reveals a powerhouse of learning and culture. Over a span of more than 800 years Oxford has nurtured some of the greatest minds, while right across the globe its name is synonymous with educational excellence. From dangerous political upheavals caused by the radical and inflammatory ideas of John Wyclif to the bloody 1555 martyrdoms of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley; and from John Ruskin's innovative lectures on art and explosive public debate between Charles Darwin and his opponents to gentler meetings of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R.Tolkien and the Inklings in the 'Bird and Baby', Evans brings Oxford's revolutionary events, as well as its remarkable intellectual journey, to vivid and sparkling life.
Contents
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Coming to Oxford1 Towards Oxford todayNot an Inkling of the future?Riding out the First World WarOxford takes the state's pennyLetting the women in: 1920 and afterBetween the WarsThe Second World War and its aftermathA Symposium at Worcester: the 1950s to the 1980sFrom student protest to the battle for academic freedomThe 1990s and the beginning of another Oxford century 2 Oxford's Middle AgesOxford from the inside: inventing a UniversityDesigning a syllabusHousing the scholarsQuarrels and confrontations3 Oxford and the interfering TudorsRenaissance in OxfordReformation in OxfordConsequences for the collegesAnother inspection: Edward VI goes 'visiting' Mary Tudor's Visitors: the volte-face Elizabeth puts Oxford under the statutes of the realm Teaching the arts from the late sixteenth century4 Oxford keeps up with the timesOxford and the stateA society of scholars: student life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Independent intellectuals and new styles of academic lifeTeaching: the changing intellectual life of OxfordExperiments in collegiate life and new ideas about universities The Bodleian Library and the University Press5 The nineteenth-century transformationVarieties of student life at Oxford The Oxford MovementState interference and the threat of external 'reform' brings about major changeWhat became of the liberal arts?Bringing the syllabus up to date: the Oxford reform of classical educationOxford studies the sciencesExaminations reformedOxford does its bit for social mobilityConclusionNotesSelect bibliographyIndex
