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G. R. Evans (an Oxford graduate who lives in that city) is Professor Emerita of Intellectual History and Medieval Theology in the University of Cambridge. She has written many widely respected books in the fields of history and religion, and also serves as editor of the "I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church" series.
Preface | p. vii |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Abbreviations | p. xii |
List of Illustrations | p. xv |
Introduction: coming to Oxford | p. 1 |
Towards Oxford today | p. 11 |
Not an Inkling of the future? | p. 11 |
Riding out the First World War | p. 18 |
Oxford takes the state's penny | p. 22 |
Letting the women in: 1920 and after | p. 27 |
Between the Wars | p. 36 |
The Second World War and its aftermath | p. 40 |
A Symposium at Worcester: the 1950s to the 1980s | p. 48 |
From student protest to the battle for academic freedom | p. 62 |
The 1990s and the beginning of another Oxford century | p. 64 |
Oxford's Middle Ages | p. 79 |
Oxford from the inside: inventing a University | p. 79 |
Designing a syllabus | p. 96 |
Housing the scholars | p. 104 |
Quarrels and confrontations | p. 110 |
Oxford and the interfering Tudors | p. 121 |
Renaissance in Oxford | p. 121 |
Reformation in Oxford | p. 130 |
Consequences for the colleges | p. 138 |
Another inspection: Edward VI goes 'visiting' | p. 143 |
Mary Tudor's Visitors: the volte-face | p. 150 |
Elizabeth places Oxford under the statutes of the realm | p. 155 |
Teaching the Arts from the late sixteenth century | p. 162 |
Oxford keeps up with the times | p. 167 |
Oxford and the state | p. 167 |
A society of scholars: student life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries | p. 188 |
Independent intellectuals and new styles of academic life | p. 201 |
Teaching: the changing intellectual life of Oxford | p. 206 |
Experiments in collegiate life and new ideas about universities | p. 230 |
The Bodleian Library and the University Press | p. 236 |
The nineteenth-century transformation | p. 245 |
Varieties of student life at Oxford | p. 245 |
The Oxford Movement | p. 248 |
State interference and the threat of external 'reform' brings about major change | p. 254 |
What became of the liberal arts? | p. 262 |
Bringing the syllabus up to date: the Oxford reform of classical education | p. 270 |
Oxford studies the sciences | p. 278 |
Examinations reformed | p. 291 |
Oxford does its bit for social mobility | p. 298 |
Conclusion | p. 309 |
Notes | p. 313 |
Select bibliography | p. 339 |
Index | p. 349 |
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