Enlightened Oxford aims to discern, establish, and clarify the multiplicity of connections between the University of Oxford, its members, and the world outside; to offer readers a fresh, contextualised sense of the University's role in the state, in society, and in relation to other institutions between the Williamite Revolution and the first decade of the nineteenth century, the era loosely describable (though not without much qualification) as England's ancien regime. 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.
"It is an impressive study. Its thoroughness and level of detail justly serves the broad scope of the project. As a rich source of information, it will surely become the new definitive work on eighteenth-century Oxford. As well as this, it provides an important perspective on the role and place of the university in the Enlightenment and is a fascinating study of church and state in Hanoverian Britain." - Daniel Rignall, Proceedings Of The Wesley Historical Society
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"It is an impressive study. Its thoroughness and level of detail justly serves the broad scope of the project. As a rich source of information, it will surely become the new definitive work on eighteenth-century Oxford. As well as this, it provides an important perspective on the role and place of the university in the Enlightenment and is a fascinating study of church and state in Hanoverian Britain." - Daniel Rignall, Proceedings Of The Wesley Historical Society
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