The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses - Couverture souple

Annan, Noel Gilroy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226021084 ISBN 13 : 9780226021089

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2001

Synopsis

The Dons For 200 years, Oxford and Cambridge were home to some of Britain's greatest teachers and intellects. This book describes the great dons in all their glorious and eccentric garb: who they were, what they were like, why they mattered and what their legacy is.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A wonderfully engaging and entertaining history of the great dons of the last two hundred years, by one of our leading historians of ideas. Rich in anecdote, and displaying all the author's customary mastery of his subject, The Dons is Noel Annan at his erudite, encyclopedic and entertaining best. The book is a kaleidoscope of wonderful vignettes illustrating the brilliance and eccentricities of some of the greatest figures of British university life. Here is Buckland dropping to his knees to lick the supposed patch of a martyr's blood in an Italian cathedral and remarking, ?I can tell you what it is; it's bat's urine.' Or the granitic Master of Balliol, A.D. Lindsay, whose riposte on finding himself in a minority of one at a College meeting was, ?I see we are deadlocked'. But, entertaining as it is, The Dons also has a more serious purpose, no other book has ever explained so precisely - and so amusingly - why the dons matter, and the importance of the role they have played in the shaping of British higher education over the past two centuries.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0226021084
• ISBN 13: 9780226021089
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 357