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OverviewAnthony Wood's account of his life is one of the few written by university persons in the seventeenth century. It is full of information about famous people, including Christopher Wren, John Locke, the physician John Lower, the Catholic Ralph Sheldon, the mathematician John Wallis, and a host of Oxford heads of colleges, vice-chancellors and chancellors. It contains descriptions of the skirmishes between parliamentarian and royalist forces in the 1640s, the atmosphere of Oxford during the parliamentarian occupation, the return of King Charles II in 1660, the anti-Catholic movement of the 1670s, and the burning of Wood's own Athen Oxonienses in front of the Bodleian Library in 1693. Wood made more contributions to biography, bibliography, and the history of the University of Oxford and the city of Oxford than any other writer before the end of the seventeenth century. His descriptions and casual diary entries are bursting full of information about his times, peppered with entertaining social commentary. This is the first modern critical edition of his text, and is based on all the surviving sources in the Bodleian Library. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nicolas K. Kiessling (Washington State University, Pullman, WA)Publisher: Bodleian Library Imprint: Bodleian Library Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.634kg ISBN: 9781851243082ISBN 10: 1851243089 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 01 November 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationNicolas K. Kiessling is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of English, Washington State University Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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