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Cecil Headlam
Oxford and Its Story
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664591838
Table of Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I S. FRIDESWIDE AND THE CATHEDRAL
CHAPTER II THE MOUND, THE CASTLE AND SOME CHURCHES
CHAPTER III THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSITY
CHAPTER IV THE COMING OF THE FRIARS
CHAPTER V THE MEDIÆVAL STUDENT
CHAPTER VI OXFORD AND THE REFORMATION
CHAPTER VII THE OXFORD MARTYRS
CHAPTER VIII ELIZABETH, BODLEY AND LAUD
CHAPTER IX THE ROYALIST CAPITAL
CHAPTER X JACOBITE OXFORD—AND AFTER
PREFACE
THE Story of Oxford touches the History of England, social and political, mental and architectural, at so many points, that it is impossible to deal with it fully even in so large a volume as the present.
Even as it is, I have been unavoidably compelled to save space by omitting much that I had written and practically all my references and acknowledgments. Yet, where one has gathered so much honey from other men’s flowers not to acknowledge the debt in detail appears discourteous and ungrateful; and not to give chapter and verse jars also upon the historical conscience. I can only say that, very gratefully, J’ai pris mon bien où je l’ai trouvé, whether in the forty odd volumes of the Oxford Historical Society, the twenty volumes of the College Histories, the accurate and erudite monographs of Dr Rashdall (“Mediæval Universities”) and Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte (“History of the University of Oxford to the year 1530”) or innumerable other works. Where so much has been so well done by others in the way of dealing with periods and sections of my whole subject, my chief business has been to read, mark, digest, and then to arrange my story. But to do that thoroughly has been no light task. Whether it be well done or ill-done, the story now told has the great merit of providing an occasion, excuse was never needed, for the display of Mr Herbert Railton’s art.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
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| Oxford Cathedral (Interior) | Facing 8 |
| Oxford Cathedral (Exterior) | 13 |
| Hall Stairway, Christ Church | 17 |
| Abingdon Abbey | 24 |
| The Bastion and Ramparts in New College | Facing 30 |
| City Walls | 31 |
| Chapel of Our Lady | 32 |
| Bird’s-eye View of Oxford (1578) | Facing 32 |
| Oxford Castle | 35 |
| S. Peter’s in the East | Facing 42 |
| The “Bishop’s Palace,” S. Aldate’s | 50 |
| The Radcliffe Library, from Brasenose College | 85 |
| Gables in Worcester College | 103 |
| Gateway, Worcester Gardens | 106 |
| Oriel College | Facing 108 |
| Doorway, Rewley Abbey | 109 |
| Old Gateway, Merton College | 117 |
| Monastic Buildings, Worcester College | 127 |
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Oriel Window, Lincoln College
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