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…
Classical scholarship and its history: from the Renaissance to the present : essays in h…
by Hall, Edith, Stray, Christopher, Clarke, Michael, Elsner, Jaś, Kaster, Robert A., Butterfield, David, Shuttleworth Kraus, Christina, Gibson, Roy, Briggs, Ward, Hallett, Judith P., Clackson, James, Hardwick, Lorna, Whitaker, Graham
fromTrends in Classics - Scholarship in the Making
It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination of interests in the sociology of scholars and scholarship, in the history of the…