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  1. 1. März 2016 · The book is a history of the University of Oxford from its beginnings in the late eleventh century until the present. Emphasis is placed on the fact that Oxford’s history has been one of discontinuity as much as continuity by the division of the book into four parts.

  2. 22. März 2022 · The History of the University of Oxford. Publication date. 1984. Topics. University of Oxford -- History, University of Oxford, Universities and colleges -- Great Britain, Universiteiten. Publisher. Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.

  3. 16. Nov. 2000 · Volume VII of The History of the University of Oxford completes the survey of 19th-century Oxford University begun in Volume VI. After 1871, both teachers and students at Oxford were freed from tests of religious belief.

    • Evidence of Teaching
    • A Paris Ban
    • A Notable Visitor
    • First Overseas Student
    • The Title of Chancellor
    • First Colleges
    • Tributes from Kings
    • Religious and Political Controversy
    • Scientific Discovery and Religious Revival
    • The Oxford Movement

    There is no clear date of foundation but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096. (Image credit: Shutterstock)

    Oxford developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris following a quarrel with Thomas Becket. (Image: Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury stained glass window in the Chapter House at Westminster Abbey. Credit: Shutterstock.)

    In 1188, the historian Gerald of Wales gave a public reading to the assembled Oxford dons (university lecturers, especially at Oxford or Cambridge). As a royal clerk to the king and two archbishops, Gerald of Wales travelled widely and wrote extensively. (Image credit:Shutterstock)

    In around 1190 the arrival of Emo of Friesland, the first known overseas student, set in motion the University’s tradition of developing international scholarly links. (Image credit:Shutterstock)

    By 1201 the University was headed by a ‘magister scholarum (head of an ecclesiastical school) Oxonie’, on whom the title of Chancellor was later conferred in 1214, and in 1231 the Masters were recognised as a universitas or corporation. (Image: The current Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes.)

    During the 13th century, rioting between town and gown (townspeople and students) hastened the establishment of primitive halls of residence. These were succeeded by the first of Oxford’s colleges, which began as endowed houses or medieval halls of residence, under the supervision of a Master. Established between 1249 and 1264, University, Balliol ...

    Less than a century later, Oxford had achieved eminence above every other seat of learning, and won the praises of popes, kings and sages by virtue of its antiquity, curriculum, doctrine and privileges. In 1355, Edward III paid tribute to the University for its invaluable contribution to learning. He also commented on the services rendered to the s...

    John Wyclif, a 14th-century Master of Balliol, campaigned for a Bible in English, against the wishes of the papacy. In the 16th century, Henry VIII forced the University to accept his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, and the Anglican churchmen Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley were later tried for heresy and burnt at the stake in the city. The Universit...

    Edmond Halley, Professor of Geometry, predicted the return of the comet that bears his name. John and Charles Wesley’s prayer meetings laid the foundations for the Methodist Society. Find out more: Oxford people Famous Oxonians British Prime Ministers | University of Oxford Award winners | University of Oxford

    From 1833 onwards, the Oxford Movement sought to revitalise the Catholic aspects of the Anglican Church. One of its leaders, John Henry Newman, became a Roman Catholic in 1845 and was later made a Cardinal. In 2019 he was canonised as a saint. (Image: Close-up of Cardinal Newman bust from Trinity College Garden Quad, Oxford University. Credit: Shut...

  4. 10. Sept. 2019 · A history of the University of Oxford. by. Mallet, Charles Edward, Sir, 1862-1947. Publication date. 1968. Topics. University of Oxford -- History. Publisher. New York, Barnes & Noble.

  5. Rather than a seamless synecdoche of the history of English with the history of the standard variety, the image of the past that is explored over the course of this volume is therefore one characterized by its heterogeneity, and by the ebb

  6. 26. Juni 1997 · Volume IV of the series The History of the University of Oxford covers the 17th century, a period when both institutionally and intellectually the University was expanding. Oxford and its university moreover had a major role to play in the tumultuous religious and political events of the century: the Civil War, the Commonwealth, the Restoration.