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This study surveys how one of the world's major universities has responded to the formidable challenges offered by the 20th century. It presents the reader with insight into many aspects of British life and assesses the influence of the University of Oxford in the world sphere.

Shows a contrasting picture of eighteenth-century Oxford to that presented by Edward Gibbon in his "Autobiography". Attention is given to the University's role in national politics, its social and administrative structure, and its relationship with the Church, as well as a range of academic life and culture in eighteenth-century Oxford.

This volume covers the Tudor period, a century of fundamental change in which Oxford acquired its familiar character as an association of endowed collegiate undergraduate societies.

This volume is primarily concerned with the establishment of the University in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the development of its studies in the high age of scholasticism, up to the great philosophical debate between William of Ockham and his Mertonian opponents.

A comprehensive history of one of Britain's most influential institutions. This second volume examines the university during the late Middle Ages, when scholasticism was at its height. It explores the academic pursuits of the scholars of Oxford as well as the daily life at the colleges.

Volume IV of the magisterial History of the University of Oxford covers the seventeenth 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.

The University of Oxford saw far-reaching intellectual and institutional changes in the course of the nineteenth century. This title explores the major developments of the period.

Completes the survey of nineteenth-century Oxford begun in Volume VI. After 1871, both teachers and students at Oxford were freed from tests of religious belief. This volume addresses a variety of issues, including women's education, architecture, sport, and scholarship.