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Book The Oxford Toast s Answer to the Terrae Filius s Speech  for which She Has Receiv d the Publick Thanks of that Famous University  Etc

Download or read book The Oxford Toast s Answer to the Terrae Filius s Speech for which She Has Receiv d the Publick Thanks of that Famous University Etc written by OXFORD TOAST. and published by . This book was released on 1733 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society

Download or read book Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society written by Anne Goldgar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers new insights into the self-perceptions, strategies, and rituals through which early modern institutions functioned. Its wide range and its comparative vision of the nature of institutions prompts a new interpretation of the role of institutions in society. With contributions by Florence Hsia, Ian Anders Gadd, Gayle K. Brunelle, Christopher Carlsmith, Susan E. Brown, Victor Morgan, Steve Hindle, Janelle Day Jenstad, Eve Rosenhaft, Reed Benhamou, James Shaw, Kristine Haugen.

Book History of Universities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mordechai Feingold
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2001-11-08
  • ISBN : 9780199248421
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book History of Universities written by Mordechai Feingold and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume XVI/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.

Book Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context

Download or read book Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context written by Meelis Friedenthal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a wide-ranging overview of the 16th-18th century disputation culture in various European regions. Its focus is on printed disputations as a polyvalent media form which brings together many of the elements that contributed to the cultural and scientific changes during the early modern period.

Book Terrae filius

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  • Author : Nicholas Amhurst
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1754
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Terrae filius written by Nicholas Amhurst and published by . This book was released on 1754 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Criticism

Download or read book Literary Criticism written by Gay Wilson Allen and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from 39 critics.

Book Enlightened Oxford

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  • Author : Nigel Aston
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023-09-19
  • ISBN : 0198872887
  • Pages : 844 pages

Download or read book Enlightened Oxford written by Nigel Aston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightened Oxford aims to discern, establish, and clarify the multiplicity of connections between the University of Oxford, its members, and the world outside; to offer readers a fresh, contextualised sense of the University's role in the state, in society, and in relation to other institutions between the Williamite Revolution and the first decade of the nineteenth century, the era loosely describable (though not without much qualification) as England's ancien regime. Nigel Aston asks where Oxford fitted in to the broader social and cultural picture of the time, locating the University's importance in Church and state, and pondering its place as an institution that upheld religious entitlement in an ever-shifting intellectual world where national and confessional boundaries were under scrutiny. Enlightened Oxford is less an inside history than a consideration of an institutional presence and its place in the life of the country and further afield. While admitting the degree of corporate inertia to be found in the University, there was internal scope for members so inclined to be creative in their teaching, open new research lines, and be unapologetic Whigs rather than unrepentant Tories. For if Oxford was a seat of learning rooted in its past - and with an increasing antiquarian awareness of its inheritance - yet it had a surprising capacity for adaptation, a scope for intellectual and political pluralism that was not incompatible with enlightened values.

Book Richard Brathwait

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  • Author : Matthew Wilson Black
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Richard Brathwait written by Matthew Wilson Black and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Law as Performance

Download or read book Law as Performance written by Julie Stone Peters and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be "seen to be done." Law as Performance traces the history of legal performance and spectatorship through the early modern period. Viewing law as the product not merely of edicts or doctrines but of expressive action, it investigates the performances that literally created law: in civic arenas, courtrooms, judges' chambers, marketplaces, scaffolds, and streets. It examines the legal codes, learned treatises, trial reports, lawyers' manuals, execution narratives, rhetoric books, images (and more) that confronted these performances, praising their virtues or denouncing their evils. In so doing, it recovers a long, rich, and largely overlooked tradition of jurisprudential thought about law as a performance practice. This tradition not only generated an elaborate poetics and politics of legal performance. It provided western jurisprudence with a set of constitutive norms that, in working to distinguish law from theatrics, defined the very nature of law. In the crucial opposition between law and theatre, law stood for cool deliberation, by-the-book rules, and sovereign discipline. Theatre stood for deceptive artifice, entertainment, histrionics, melodrama. And yet legal performance, even at its most theatrical, also appeared fundamental to law's realization: a central mechanism for shaping legal subjects, key to persuasion, essential to deterrence, indispensable to law's power, —as it still does today.

Book Hey Presto

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  • Author : Hugh Ormsby-Lennon
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 161149012X
  • Pages : 413 pages

Download or read book Hey Presto written by Hugh Ormsby-Lennon and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hey Presto! Swift and the Quacks, Hugh Ormsby-Lennon reveals how medicine shows, both ancient and modern, galvanized Jonathan Swift's imagination and inspired his wittiest satiric voices. Swift dubbed these multifaceted traveling entertainments his Stage-itinerant or "Mountebank's Stage." In the course of arguing that the stage-itinerant formed an irresistible model for A Tale of a Tub, Ormsby-Lennon also surmises that the mountebank's stage will disclose that missing link, long sought, that connects the dual objects of Swift's ire: gross corruptions in both Religion and Learning.

Book Samuel Johnson in Historical Context

Download or read book Samuel Johnson in Historical Context written by J. Clark and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-12-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the more sudden shifts of perspective, and hotly contested controversies of recent historical and literary scholarship, our view of Johnson has been fundamentally changed. This volume offers the best up-to-the-moment account of what has been achieved, and points to the new directions in which scholarship is developing. It will be essential reading for all concerned with eighteenth-century studies.

Book English Preachers and Preaching  1640 1670

Download or read book English Preachers and Preaching 1640 1670 written by Caroline Francis Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Modern Drama at the Universities

Download or read book Early Modern Drama at the Universities written by Elizabeth Sandis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first history of Oxford and Cambridge drama during the Tudor and Stuart period. It guides the reader through the theatrical worlds of Englands universities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early Modern Drama at the Universities opens up an exciting and challenging body of evidence and offers the reader a choice of three inroads into the corpus: institutions, intertexts, and individuals. How to get noticed at university? How to get into university in the first place, or a job afterwards? Sandis pinpoints the skills that were required for success and the role of playwriting and performance in the development of those skills. We follow Oxford and Cambridge students along their educational journeyfrom schoolboys to scholars to graduates in the workplace. For the first time, we see the extent to which institutional culture made the drama what it was: pedagogically-inspired, homosocial, and self-reflexive. It was primarily on a college level that students lived, worked, and proved themselves to the community. Therefore, this study argues, to understand university drama as a whole we must recreate it from the building blocks of individual college histories. The hundreds of plays that we have inherited from Oxford and Cambridge are steeped in Classical culture; many are written in Latin. Manuscript, not print, was the accepted medium for keeping records of student plays, and these handwritten copies were unique and personal. It is time to recognize these plays in the context of early modern English drama, to uncover the culture of drama at the universities where many leading playwrights of the age were trained.

Book Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century written by and published by Cambridge, Deighton, Bell, and Company. This book was released on 1874 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Terrae filius

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  • Author : Nicholas Amhurst
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1726
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Terrae filius written by Nicholas Amhurst and published by . This book was released on 1726 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications

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  • Author : Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book Publications written by Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Guardian

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  • Author : John Calhoun Stephens
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-10-17
  • ISBN : 0813159504
  • Pages : 832 pages

Download or read book The Guardian written by John Calhoun Stephens and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1713, soon after publication of the Spectator had come to an end, its place on breakfast tables of Queen Anne's London was taken by the Guardian. Richard Steele, continuing in the new paper the blend of learning, wit, and moral instruction that had proved so attractive in the Tatler and Spectator, was the editor and principal writer; in the 175 numbers of the Guardian he included 53 essays by Joseph Addison, as well as contributions by Alexander Pope, George Berkeley, and several others, some of whom doubtless transmitted their papers through the famous lion's head letterbox that Addison had erected in Button's coffeehouse. "These papers," as John C. Stephens writes in the introduction to his edition of the Guardian, "helped to form and to shape the morals and manners of countless generations in Britain and abroad." This first modern edition of the Guardian was prepared from the original printing of the papers, is fully annotated and indexed, and includes a comprehensive introduction discussing especially the authorship of the individual essays.