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The University of Oxford: A History

L. W. B. Brockliss

But three, in , bore the additional appellation of 'permanent', which brought a higher status. Campion Hall and the Benedictines' St Benet's had the title from its invention in , St Peter's from its opening. Together with Keble and, to a ...

French higher education in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...

L. W. B. Brockliss

At a time when the role of universities is being constantly questioned, this book looks back to their function during a period when the state--in this case, France--first demanded that institutions of higher learning be socially relevant.

The University of Oxford: A History

L. W. B. Brockliss

183—560 Joseph A. Soares, The Decline of Privilege: The Modernisation of Oxford University (Stanford, CA, 1999) Statuta antiqua universitatis Oxoniensis, ed. Strickland Gibson (Oxford, 1931) Statutes of the Colleges of Oxford with royal  ...