Enlightened Oxford The University and the Cultural and Political Life of Eighteenth-Century Britain and Beyond
Enlightened Oxford The University and the Cultural and Political Life of Eighteenth-Century Britain and Beyond
- ISBN 13:
9780199246830
- ISBN 10:
0199246831
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 01/03/2024
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Nigel Aston asks where Oxford fitted in to the broader social and cultural picture of the time, locating the University's importance in Church and state, and pondering its place as an institution that upheld religious entitlement in an ever-shifting intellectual world where national and confessional boundaries were under scrutiny. Enlightened Oxford is less an inside history than a consideration of an institutional presence and its place in the life of the country and further afield. While admitting the degree of corporate inertia to be found in the University, there was internal scope for members so inclined to be creative in their teaching, open new research lines, and be unapologetic Whigs rather than unrepentant Tories. For if Oxford was a seat of learning rooted in its past - and with an increasing antiquarian awareness of its inheritance - yet it had a surprising capacity for adaptation, a scope for intellectual and political pluralism that was not incompatible with enlightened values.