John Jones

Balliol College

A History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'This is an admirably scholarly work, and a good read too. Its illustrations and plans are well chosen . . . John Jones gives us a great deal of new and detailed information about many aspects of the College's life, and some balanced revisions of traditional judgements. It will remain the standard work for a long time.' Christopher Hill

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9780199201815
• ISBN-10: 0199201811
• Artikelnr.: 30880570

Autorenporträt

John Jones was admitted to Balliol as a Commoner in 1961. He was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in Biological Science in 1966 and has been Official Fellow and Tutor in Organic Chemistry, and Archivist since 1968 and 1981 respectively. Dean 1972-2002, he has been Vice-Master since 2002. His other publications include The Chemical Synthesis of Peptides (OUP, 1991).

Inhaltsangabe

1.: The Foundation of the College
2.: Constitutional Change and Expansion in the Fourteenth Century
3.: The Early Members
4.: The Fifteenth Century
5.: Bishop Fox's Statutes
6.: The Second Chapel and the Reformation
7.: Elizabethan Balliol: College Life and Administration
8.: 'Suspicion of Papistrie'
9.: The Early Seventeenth Century
10.: The Civil War and Interregnum
11.: Penury and Recovery 1660-1720
12.: People, Life, and Times 1675-1725
13.: The Mastership of Theophilus Leigh
14.: From Obscurity to Pre-eminence 1785-1854
15.: On the Crest of a Wave: Jowett's Balliol
16.: Effortless Superiority 1893-1914
17.: The Great War
18.: Balliol between the Wars
Epilogue
Appendices
Plans of the College Sites and Buildings
Index