The University of Oxford
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The University of Oxford

A New History

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The University of Oxford

A New History

About this book

A generation or so ago, the Inklings - C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams - met regularly in an Oxford pub to encourage one another in the writing of fictions set in fantasy worlds... Philip Pullman's Gyptians live on an Oxford canal and it is from Oxford that his characters gain entry to another world... It is true that Oxford is a world to itself, a village where everyone stops in the Broad or the High to exchange local gossip... The visitor walking among the golden colleges may still see students setting off for examinations dressed in black and white... But encounters in the street are as likely to grapplings with politics (local, national and international) as exchanges about a point of scholarly detail... The 'reality' of Oxford is that it is not at all a land of faery.'

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781848851146
eBook ISBN
9780857730251
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author biography
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Epigraph page
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Contents
  10. List of Illustrations
  11. Introduction: coming to Oxford
  12. 1 Towards Oxford today
  13. 2 Oxford’s Middle Ages
  14. 3 Oxford and the interfering Tudors
  15. 4 Oxford keeps up with the times
  16. 5 The nineteenth-century transformation
  17. Conclusion
  18. Notes
  19. Select bibliography