All Souls under the Ancien Régime : politics, learning, and the arts, c.1600-1850 / edited by S. J. D. Green, Peregrine Horden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Green, S. J. D. (Simon J. D.)

Horden, Peregrine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

All Souls College (University of Oxford)--History.

All Souls College (University of Oxford).

Universities and colleges--England--Oxford--History.

Universities and colleges.

History.

England--Oxford.

Physical Description:

vii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

All Souls College in Oxford is a unique academic institution and has had a unique history. Yet that history has been little known and the college's 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 regime 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 contributors in national and ecclesiastical politics, as innovators of early modern 'science' and technology, as participants in philosophical and intellectual debate, as important patrons of art and architecture with European connections, and as administrators of British imperial interests and missionary efforts in the Caribbean and India. The collection is a significant contribution to the study of Oxford University history.

Contents:

Sir Daniel Dun, All Souls College, and the civil law / R. H. Helmholz

Sir Richard Steward and the crisis of the Caroline Regime / Robert Franklin

All Souls from civil war to glorious revolution / Scott Mandelbrote

Christopher Wren in midcareer / Jim Bennett

Christopher Wren's architectural projects in Oxford / Roger White

Clarke : father and son / Tim Clayton

The vision of Christopher Codrington / Scott Mandelbrote

John Norris and anti-Lockeanism in Oxford / Dominik Perler

Warden Gardiner, All Souls, and the church, c.1688-1760 / John Clarke

Warden Niblett and the Mortmain Bill / John Clarke

Blackstone, Oxford, and the law / Patrick Neill

All Souls and Mengs / Peregrine Horden

Bishop Heber and early nineteenth-century churchmanship / John McManners

The 'Fremantle affair' and the destruction of the Ancien Régime in All Souls, 1857-1864 / S. J. D. Green

Epitaph to the Ancien Régime : Montagu Burrows and the Worthies of All Souls / S. J. D. Green.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199276356

0199276358

OCLC:

141852058