{"product_id":"university-of-oxford-9781350225824","title":"University of Oxford","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eG.R. Evans is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407522079063,"sku":"9781350225824","price":30.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350225824.jpg?v=1730499657","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/university-of-oxford-9781350225824","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}