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9780199276356: All Souls Under the Ancien Regime: Politics, Learning, and the Arts, C.1600-1850
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ISBN 10 : 0199276358 ISBN 13 : 9780199276356
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

All Souls College in Oxford is a unique academic institution and has had a unique history. But its history has been little known and its fortunes in the period 1600-1850 have been viewed, if at all, through the eyes of the Victorian university 'reformers'. This volume explores for the first time the 'ancien régime' in All Souls on its own terms. It brings together sixteen substantial studies of some of the college's most significant figures, among them the architect and polymath Christopher Wren and the great eighteenth-century lawyer William Blackstone. Its chapters trace the involvement of the College's fellows in the wider world: as key figures in the developing legal profession in London, negotiating the complexities of the English Civil War and the Restoration, as active in national and ecclesiastical politics, as innovators of early modern 'science' and technology, as participants in philosophical and intellectual debate, as significant patrons of art and architecture with European connections, and as administrators of British imperial interests and missionary efforts in the Caribbean and India.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

All Souls College in Oxford is a unique academic institution and has had a unique history. But its history has been little known and its fortunes in the period 1600-1850 have been viewed, if at all, through the eyes of the Victorian university 'reformers'. This volume explores for the first time the 'ancien régime' in All Souls on its own terms. It brings together sixteen substantial studies of some of the college's most significant figures, among them the architect and polymath Christopher Wren and the great eighteenth-century lawyer William Blackstone. Its chapters trace the involvement of the College's fellows in the wider world: as key figures in the developing legal profession in London, negotiating the complexities of the English Civil War and the Restoration, as active in national and ecclesiastical politics, as innovators of early modern 'science' and technology, as participants in philosophical and intellectual debate, as significant patrons of art and architecture with European connections, and as administrators of British imperial interests and missionary efforts in the Caribbean and India.

Revue de presse

Outstanding scholarship... (John Robertson, English Historical Review)

Anyone interested in the long eighteenth century will find much in this current volume which is interesting and enlightening. (Robin Darwall-Smith, Archives)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199276358
ISBN 13 
9780199276356
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
410
Éditeur
Green S J D, Horden Peregrine
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