In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe. However, when many of its key thinkers - leaders in their fields in classics, philosophy, archaeology, art history, and oriental studies - were forc…
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'Ark of Civilization' addresses Oxford's role as a shelter, a meeting point, and a centre of thought in the arts and humanities in the midst of WWII, interweaving personal and global histories to explore how refugee scholars had a profound and lasting impact on the development o…
"The collection of medieval manuscripts at Pembroke College is an important one. Its most striking feature is that the majority of MSS 1-120 came from the abbey of Bury St Edmunds, as the gift of Thomas Smart [actually William Smarte (1530?-1599)] in 1599. Included among them is…
Schrödinger's breakthrough -- To Oxford and the Nobel Prize -- Life and work in Oxford -- Return to Austria and escape back to Oxford -- To Dublin and final days in Vienna -- Schrödinger's legacy. "This book is an authoritative account of Erwin Schrödinger's in Magdalen College…
"This book is an authoritative account of Erwin Schrödinger's in Magdalen College, Oxford in the 1930s drawn from many unpublished manuscripts, letters, and correspondences. It reveals in unprecedented detail the events leading up to Schrödinger's sudden departure from Berlin in…
"This book is an authoritative account of Erwin Schrödinger's in Magdalen College, Oxford in the 1930s drawn from many unpublished manuscripts, letters, and correspondences. It reveals in unprecedented detail the events leading up to Schrödinger's sudden departure from Berlin in…
Oxford classics: teaching and learning, 1800-2000
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16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of Oxford classics in the last 200 years. An opening chapter sets the scene by comparing Oxford with Cambridge classics, and several old favourites are revisited. The book as a whole offers a wide-ranging survey of classics in …
Oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in Britain, has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social, institutional, cultural. Its rival, Cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while Oxford''s leading study was Cl…
This book argues that growing tensions between students and the university authorities were crucial in determining the introduction of key reforms such as competitive examination and a uniform syllabus at Oxford against the background of the American and French Revolutions.