Download or read book Merton College Library written by Julia C. Walworth and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Merton library is rightly known for its antiquity, its beautiful medieval and early modern architecture and fittings, and its remarkable collection of manuscripts and rare books. However, a nineteenth-century plan to tear the medieval library down and replace it was only narrowly prevented. This brief history of Europe's oldest surviving academic library begins with its origins in the thirteenth century, when a new type of community of scholars was first being set up, and follows through to the present day and its multiple functions as a working college library, a unique resource for researchers, and a delight for curious visitors. ​Drawing on the remarkable wealth of documentation in the college's archives, this is the first history of the library to explore collections, buildings, readers, and staff across more than seven hundred years. The story is told in part through stunning color images that depict not only exceptional treasures but also the library furnishings and decorations, and which show manuscripts, books, bindings, and artifacts of different periods in their changing contexts. Featuring a historical timeline and a floor plan of the college, this book will be of interest to historians, alumni, and tourists alike.

Download or read book Merton College Oxford written by Henry Julian White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes humorous, always fascinating, this work first published in 1906 provides a rare insight into one of Britain's oldest institutions.

Download or read book College Life in the Old South written by E. Merton Coulter and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the early history of the University of Georgia from its founding in 1785 through the Reconstruction era. In this history of America's first chartered state university, the author recounts, among other things, how Athens was chosen as the university's location; how the state tried to close the university and refused to give it a fixed allowance until long after the Civil War; the early rules and how students invariably broke them; the days when the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian literary societies ruled the campus; and the vast commencement crowds that overwhelmed Athens to feast on oratory and watermelons.

Download or read book Merton College written by Bernard William Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Merton College Oxford written by Geoffrey Haward Martin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1264, Merton College was the first self-governing college in Oxford and the model for all the historic colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. This history also covers the development of the college library and the impact of John Wyclif.

Download or read book The foundation documents of Merton college Oxford collected by J Heywood ed by J O Halliwell written by University of Oxford and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Foundation Statutes of Merton College Oxford A D 1270 written by Merton College and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memorials of Merton College written by George Charles Brodrick and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Merton College written by Bernard William Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Foundation Statutes of Merton College Oxford A D 1270 written by Merton College and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sketch of the life of Walter de Merton Founder of Merton College written by Edmund HOBHOUSE (Bishop of Nelson, New Zealand.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Merton College Oxford written by Henry Julian White and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Man of Dialogue written by Gregory K. Hillis and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Catholic was Thomas Merton? Since his death in 1968, Merton’s Catholic identity has been regularly questioned, both by those who doubt the authenticity of his Catholicism given his commitment to ecumenical and interreligious dialogue and by those who admire Merton as a thinker but see him as an aberration who rebelled against his Catholicism to articulate ideas that went against the church. In this book, Gregory K. Hillis illustrates that Merton’s thought was intertwined with his identity as a Catholic priest and emerged out of a thorough immersion in the church’s liturgical, theological, and spiritual tradition. In addition to providing a substantive introduction to Merton’s life and thought, this book illustrates that Merton was fundamentally shaped by his identity as a Roman Catholic.

Download or read book Oxford University Gazette written by University of Oxford and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Seven Storey Mountain written by Thomas Merton and published by Christian Large Print. This book was released on 1985 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's search to find his role in the world is revealed in the writer's portrait of his youthful political activism and entry into a Trappist monastery

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Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Merton College Oxford written by Rodney M. Thomson and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2009 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptive catalogue provides a crucial guide to one of the most important repositories of medieval manuscrips. Merton College, Oxford, one of the oldest colleges in the University, was founded in 1264. Its library contains some 328 complete medieval manuscript books (plus several hundred fragments in, or extracted from, the bindings of early printed books), dating from the ninth to the late fifteenth century. Most of them came to the College before the Reformation, and are the remains of its medieval collection, part of which was chained in the library, part in circulation amongst the Fellowship. Together with the College's surviving medieval archive, which includes no fewer than twenty-three book-lists, this material provides an important window on intellectual life at the University of Oxford between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, and on the manufacture, acquisition and use of the books that supported it. This first catalogue of the medieval manuscripts since 1852 offers full and detailed descriptions of each item, supported by a colour frontispiece, 50 colour plates, and 107 black and white plates. Its introduction provides the first detailed history of Merton's medieval library, including an account of the building anddesign of the College's 'Old Library', built in the 1370s, western Europe's oldest library room still in use today; and the volume is completed with four appendices (including a comprehensive set of extracts from the College's medieval account rolls referring to its books and library) and two indexes. RODNEY M. THOMSON is Professor of History and Honorary Research Associate in the School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania.