All Souls College Oxford In The Early Eighteenth Century

Author : Jeffrey Wigelsworth
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900437535X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Souls College, Oxford in the Early Eighteenth Century written by Jeffrey Wigelsworth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of All Souls College under the Wardenship of Bernard Gardiner, that focuses on the ways in which the college and Gardiner were caught between competing visions of what England would look like in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution.

Author : Howard Colvin
Publisher : Chichele Lectures
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Souls, an Oxford College and Its Buildings written by Howard Colvin and published by Chichele Lectures. This book was released on 1989 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text of this volume comprises the Chichele Lectures of 1986 on the architectural history of All Souls College. Beginning with a discussion of the college's foundation by Archbishop Chichele in 1438 and the construction of the original medieval buildings, Howard Colvin lays considerablestress on the model afforded by the earlier foundation of New College. He goes on to consider the college's neo-gothic expansion in the early eighteenth century, and the great building work of Nicholas Hawksmoor. Finally, John Simmons discusses the changes that occurred in the eighteenth andnineteenth centuries, and looks in particular at the alterations to the chapel made by Gilbert Scott in the 1870s. This first architectural history of one of Oxford's most famous colleges is lavishly illustrated throughout, and contains several appendices.

Author : W. M. Jacob
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521892957
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lay People and Religion in the Early Eighteenth Century written by W. M. Jacob and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the part that Anglicanism played in the lives of lay people in England and Wales between 1689 and 1750. It is concerned with what they did rather than what they believed, and explores their attitudes to clergy, religious activities, personal morality and charitable giving. Using diaries, letters, account books, newspapers and popular publications and parish and diocesan records, Dr Jacob demonstrates that Anglicanism held the allegiance of a significant proportion of all people. They took the lead in managing the affairs of the parishes, which were the major focus of communal and social life, and supported the spiritual and moral discipline of the church courts. He shows that early eighteenth-century England and Wales remained a largely traditional society and that Methodism emerged from a strong church, which was central to the lives of most people.

Author : Christopher Hollings
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192843214
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford's Sedleian Professors of Natural Philosophy written by Christopher Hollings and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in the early seventeenth century following a bequest to the university by Sir William Sedley, Oxford's Sedleian Professorship of Natural Philosophy is one of the university's oldest professorships. In common with other such positions established around this time, such as the Savilian Professorships of Geometry and Astronomy, for example, its purpose was to provide centrally organised lectures on a specific subject. While the Professorship is now a high-profile research post in applied mathematics, it has previously been held by physicians, an astronomer, and several people in the eighteenth century whose credentials in natural philosophy are much less clear. This edited volume traces the varied history of the chair through the first four centuries of its existence, combining specialised contributions from historians of medicine, of science, of mathematics, and of universities, together with personal reminiscences of some of the more recent holders of the post.

Author : Peregrine Horden
Publisher : Ad Ilissum
ISBN 13 : 9781912168224
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reredos of All Souls College Oxford written by Peregrine Horden and published by Ad Ilissum. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pevsner calls it 'marvellous'. Yet the reredos of the fi fteenth-century chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, with its combination of medieval niches and statuary by George Gilbert Scott, has remained one of the unsung glories of both medieval perpendicular architecture and Victorian restoration. Informed by recent scientifi c investigation of its stonework and its surviving medieval polychromy, this volume traces for the fi rst time the entire history of the reredos in its architectural and religious context - from the phases of its medieval and early Tudor construction, through its covering up with a succession of baroque and neoclassical decorative schemes, to its uncovering andrestoration in the 1870s. The book provides a novel and revealing vantage point on the artistic, cultural and ecclesiological history of Britain across four centuries.

Author : Nigel Aston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199246831
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlightened Oxford written by Nigel Aston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-19 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightened Oxford aims to discern, establish, and clarify the multiplicity of connections between the University of Oxford, its members, and the world outside; to offer readers a fresh, contextualised sense of the University's role in the state, in society, and in relation to other institutions between the Williamite Revolution and the first decade of the nineteenth century, the era loosely describable (though not without much qualification) as England's ancien regime. Nigel Aston asks where Oxford fitted in to the broader social and cultural picture of the time, locating the University's importance in Church and state, and pondering its place as an institution that upheld religious entitlement in an ever-shifting intellectual world where national and confessional boundaries were under scrutiny. Enlightened Oxford is less an inside history than a consideration of an institutional presence and its place in the life of the country and further afield. While admitting the degree of corporate inertia to be found in the University, there was internal scope for members so inclined to be creative in their teaching, open new research lines, and be unapologetic Whigs rather than unrepentant Tories. For if Oxford was a seat of learning rooted in its past - and with an increasing antiquarian awareness of its inheritance - yet it had a surprising capacity for adaptation, a scope for intellectual and political pluralism that was not incompatible with enlightened values.

Author : Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199668388
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Universities written by Mordechai Feingold and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in a series of history of universities contains a mix of chapters and book reviews. The book acts as a tool for the historian of higher education. The volume combines original research and reference material. Topics include teaching and learning in the University of Bologna, religious debates in eighteenth-century University of Oxford, and Richard Bentley's intellectual genesis.

Author : Robin Darwall-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192693085
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Universities XXXV / 1 written by Robin Darwall-Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Wilfrid Prest
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199652015
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Blackstone written by Wilfrid Prest and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyer, politician, poet, teacher and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in 18th century public life, and pivotal in the history of law. Despite the influence of his work, Blackstone the man remains little known. This book, Blackstone's first scholarly biography, sheds light on the life, work, and society of a neglected figure.

Author : George E. Thomas
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812235159
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building America's First University written by George E. Thomas and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than a guide, this is a thorough and engaging study of a great American institution."--Choice