The Secret History Of Oxford

Author : Paul Sullivan
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750953012
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of Oxford written by Paul Sullivan and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret History of Oxford offers the reader an off-the-beaten-track tour of the city's landmarks and streets. Filled with hundreds of facts and anecdotes, it reveals the amusing, unlikely and downright wonderful stories hidden beneath the surface. Some, such as the fact that the founder of Oxford was eaten by wolves, will be known; many others, such as the fact that Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, stole a piece of New College's unicorn horn, that one of the Fellows of Christ Church was a bear or that Oxford Castle has England's most frequently sighted ghost, are much less widely known – and some of these stories have not appeared in print for hundreds of years. With rare photographs and intriguing information on the people, eras and events that defined the city's history, this book lets the flying cats out of the bags, rattles the dragons' cages and reveals all the skeletons in the city's cupboards.

Author : Walter Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of the Oxford Movement written by Walter Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas Amhurst
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022483736
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terræ-Filius written by Nicholas Amhurst and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a satirical and irreverent take on the history of the University of Oxford, written in the early 18th century. The author, who was a student at Oxford, takes a humorous and critical look at the traditions, practices, and personalities of the university, from the vice-chancellor to the students. He also pokes fun at the wider social and cultural context in which the university is situated, and offers a lively and entertaining critique of the educational and intellectual values of his time. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Bryan J. Cuevas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195306521
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead written by Bryan J. Cuevas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo) under the title The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Since that time, the work has established a powerful hold on the western popular imagination, and is now considered a classic of spiritual literature. Over the years, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has inspired numerous commentaries, an illustrated edition, a play, a video series, and even an opera. Translators, scholars, and popular devotees of the book have claimed to explain its esoteric ideas and reveal its hidden meaning. Few, however, have uttered a word about its history. Bryan J. Cuevas seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge by offering the first comprehensive historical study of the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo, and by grounding it firmly in the context of Tibetan history and culture. He begins by discussing the many ways the texts have been understood (and misunderstood) by westerners, beginning with its first editor, the Oxford-educated anthropologist Walter Y. Evans-Wentz, and continuing through the present day. The remarkable fame of the book in the west, Cuevas argues, is strikingly disproportionate to how the original Tibetan texts were perceived in their own country. Cuevas tells the story of how The Tibetan Book of the Dead was compiled in Tibet, of the lives of those who preserved and transmitted it, and explores the history of the rituals through which the life of the dead is imagined in Tibetan society. This book provides not only a fascinating look at a popular and enduring spiritual work, but also a much-needed corrective to the proliferation of ahistorical scholarship surrounding The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Author : Walter Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of the Oxford Movement written by Walter Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret History of the Oxford Movement by Walter Walsh, first published in 1898, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Author : Nicholas Amhurst
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138016
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrae-filius, Or, The Secret History of the University of Oxford, 1721-1726 written by Nicholas Amhurst and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Amhurst was often dismissed by nineteenth-century historians of Oxford as a bitter "slanderer of his university," his work stands as the single most important and reliable contemporarily published account of life in early eighteenth-century Oxford. The Terrae-Filius essays, despite their satirical bent, also demonstrate that Amhurst had a deep respect for the institution and a clear vision of the intellectual ideas it should embody. This modern critical edition reprints all fifty-three Terrae-Filius essays (including the three omitted from the 1726 collected editions) and provides an introduction and extensive explanatory notes that set the essays in their historical and cultural context."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Tracy Hargreaves
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826453204
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Donna Tartt's The Secret History written by Tracy Hargreaves and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series gives readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. Each title includes a biography of the novelist and a full-length study of the novel.

Author : Nicholas Amhurst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book Terræ-filius: Or, The Secret History of the University of Oxford; in Several Essays written by Nicholas Amhurst and published by . This book was released on 1726 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The secret history of the Oxford Movement written by Walter Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Walsh
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330250280
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of the Oxford Movement written by Walter Walsh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Secret History of the Oxford Movement The Church Times, in its issues of September 9th, 16th, and 23rd, 1898, devoted a considerable portion of its space to a criticism of this book, and has now reprinted these articles as a pamphlet of thirty-two pages. It is generally understood that this is the recognised reply of the Ritualistic party, and therefore it has been thought well that I should answer it in these pages. I freely admit, at the outset, that if personal insult, libels, and vituperation could kill a book, The Secret History of the Oxford Movement could not survive the attack of The Church Times. But I venture to submit that the thinking men and women of England view with natural distrust a cause which cannot exist without descending to tactics of this kind. They require something more than outbursts of anger, and an exhibition of vexation and annoyance, to convince them that my book cannot be relied on. The Public care little or nothing as to what my personal views may be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.