University Life in Eighteenth-century OxfordYale University Press, 1996 M01 1 - 182 pages This social history of academic life in 18th-century Oxford presents an account of the activities of students and dons at the university: the often inordinate eating and drinking; life in the senior common rooms; the struggles with authority; the place of women in an all-male environment; the pleasures of sauntering in a still-rural Oxford; the sports and pastimes that kept students from their books; music, theatre, and the astounding variety of entertainment found in the streets: executions, political riots, and circuses that the gown as well as the town attended and relished. |
Contents
TWO Arriving and Settling In | 16 |
the Dons on the Dais | 39 |
SIX Drinking and Riot | 61 |
SEVEN Women and Love | 75 |
EIGHT Walking and Sauntering | 91 |
NINE Sports and Pastimes | 107 |
TEN The Theatre and Music | 130 |
ELEVEN The Theatre of the Streets | 144 |
Envoy | 158 |
Bibliography | 173 |
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academic Amhurst April bedmaker beef bottle Brasenose century Christ Church College Corpus D'Anvers Diary of Erasmus dining dinner dress drink Encaenia entertainment Erasmus Philips favourite Fellows freshman friends garden gentlemen commoners gown Gownsmen Headington Heads of Houses Hearne records high table horse hour Ibid John Skinner journal of John July June ladies later Letters of Richard Magdalen Magdalen Bridge Memoirs Merton morning mutton night o'clock Oriel Oxon plays pleasure Poem Port Meadow Proctors Queen's races Radcliffe and John Richard Radcliffe Robert Southey Samuel Johnson sausages scandal scene Scheme of Discipline scholars senior common room Sept servitor shillings social Society St Edmund Hall statutes streets Student supper Terrae Filius theatre Thomas Hearne Thomas Warton town Trinity tutor Uffenbach undergraduate University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor Vicesimus Knox Wadham Wadham College walk William Shenstone wine Woodforde young youth
References to this book
A Modern Introduction to Theology: New Questions for Old Beliefs Philip Kennedy No preview available - 2006 |