Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
List of Illustrations

Introduction: Coming to Oxford

1 Towards Oxford today
Not an Inkling of the future?
Riding out the First World War
Oxford takes the state’s penny
Letting the women in: 1920 and after
Between the Wars
The Second World War and its aftermath
A Symposium at Worcester: the 1950s to the 1980s
From student protest to the battle for academic freedom
The 1990s and the beginning of another Oxford century

2 Oxford’s Middle Ages
Oxford from the inside: inventing a University
Designing a syllabus
Housing the scholars
Quarrels and confrontations

3 Oxford and the interfering Tudors
Renaissance in Oxford
Reformation in Oxford
Consequences for the colleges
Another 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 century

4 Oxford keeps up with the times
Oxford and the state
A society of scholars: student life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Independent intellectuals and new styles of academic life
Teaching: the changing intellectual life of Oxford
Experiments in collegiate life and new ideas about universities
The Bodleian Library and the University Press

5 The nineteenth-century transformation
Varieties of student life at Oxford
The Oxford Movement
State interference and the threat of external `reform’ brings about major change
What became of the liberal arts?
Bringing the syllabus up to date: the Oxford reform of classical education
Oxford studies the sciences
Examinations reformed
Oxford does its bit for social mobility

Conclusion
Notes
Select bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

After its foundation in the late twelfth century, The University of Oxford made a crucial contribution to the core syllabus of all medieval universities and attracted teachers of international calibre and fame. This title presents Oxford's revolutionary events and its intellectual journey.

About the Author

G R Evans is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge, is a graduate of the University of Oxford and holds higher doctorates of both Oxford and Cambridge. She has written many well-received books in the fields of medieval and ecumenical theology, intellectual history and public policy in higher education and also serves as editor of the 'I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church' series.

Reviews

'Gives a good introduction to the modern university and the history that has formed it' - Contemporary Review 'To describe the events and problems of so complex an institution as Oxford over so many centuries is a hard task. It has been well-performed by Evans in this lucid, civilised and good-humoured book.' - London Review of Books