Table of Contents

Part 1: The Catholic University: c.1100-1534
Introduction: The First Universities
1: Foundation and Institutionalisation
2: A University of Clerics
3: Halls and Colleges
4: Teaching and Learning
Conclusion: Towards the Reformation
Part II: The Anglican University: 1534-1845
Introduction: The Age of Confessionalism
5: The University and the Colleges
6: Church and State
7: Students and Teachers
8: Masters and Learning
Conclusion: English Exceptionalism
Part III: The Imperial University: 1845-1945
Introduction: Reform and Resurrection
9: A Century of Reform
10: Undergraduates and their Education
11: Oxford Life
12: Towards the Research University
Conclusion: Oxford in Context
Part IV: The World University: 1945-2013
13: External Pressures and Internal Responses
14: Students, Staff, and Research
15: The Oxford Experience
Conclusion: Future Prospects
Appendix

About the Author

Professor L.W.B. Brockliss is a historian of education, science, and medicine with a particular interest in early-modern France and England. His doctoral thesis was on the University of Paris and his first book was a study of French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1987). More recently, he has been the editor and co-author of Magdalen College, Oxford: A History (2008). For many years he was the English representative
on the international commission for the history of higher education and he has also edited the journal History of Universities.

Reviews

Brockliss's great achievement is to place the University of Oxford within the context not only of the history of universities but of Britain and Europe more broadly, revealing it as both the product of and a player in these larger developments.
*Tamson Pietsch, Journal of Modern History*

Brockliss has achieved a considerable statement in the history of higher education.
*David B. Taylor, History of Education*

Brockliss's masterly, energetically written history uncovers a wealth of fascinating details.
*Paula Byrne, The Times*

Magnificently readable ... The particular benefits of this volume are that it brings the story right up to 2015, and that the author makes excellent use of a comparative knowledge of higher education in the UK and globally
*Oxford Today*

An extraordinary achievement, resting on a staggering amount of research ... Professor Brockliss has processed a truly terrifying amount of material, and seems equally assured on medieval scholasticism, modern medicine, or the quantities of wine consumed by 18th-century dons (it was a lot - even more than you might expect). It is also a remarkably easy read.
*The Revd Peter Anthony, Church Times*

well written, expertly presented, comprehensive, clear in its judgements.
*Michael Alexander, Tablet*

generous in its detail and clear in its narrative.
*Oxford Culture Review*

Brockliss' work is crammed with fascinating discussions, debates and analyses concerning the university and its place in history -- and, indeed, in the world.
*Ben Ray, Cherwell*

The book is a balanced and highly readable account of an institution which remains a beacon of knowledge and scholarship around the world
*Commonwealth Lawyers' Association*

This magisterial synthesis ... is an independent scholarly work, rich with details and insights and setting Oxford into larger educational contexts. Excellent illustrations, fine maps, and revealing tables enhance a volume that is sure to become a standard classic ... Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*

deserves to be read from cover to cover.
*Alan Crossley, Oxoniensia*