Autor(en)

Annan, Noel:

Verlag / Jahr

The University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Format / Einband

Cloth with dustjacket. IX, 357 p.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 657 g

ISBN

0226021076

EAN

9780226021072

Bestell-Nr

1191834

Bemerkungen

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag berieben, minimale Randläsuren, kleiner Fleck auf Kopfschnitt, Bleistifteintrag auf Vorsatz, sonst guter Zustand / dust jacket rubbed, minimal edgewear, small stain on top edge, pencil entry on endpaper, otherwise good condition. - For two hundred years Oxford and Cambridge were home to some of Britain’s greatest teachers and intellects, each forming the minds of the passing generations of students and influencing the thinking and practice of university learning throughout the country and the world. In this supremely engaging and instructive book, Noel Annan is at his incisive best. Brimful of telling anecdote and displaying his customary mastery of his subject, it describes the great dons in all their glorious and eccentric garb: who they were, what they were like, why they mattered and what their legacy is. Here are Buckland dropping to his knees to lick the supposed patch of martyr’s blood in an Italian cathedral and remarking, “I can tell you what it is; it’s bat’s urine”; Dean Gaisford’s dictum that “the study of Greek literature leads not infrequently to positions of considerable emolument”; the granitic Master of Balliol, A. D. Lindsay, whose riposte on finding himself in a minority of one at a College meeting was, “I see, we are deadlocked”; the great scientist Ernest Rutherford sending a message to the anti-submarine warfare committee to say he could not attend the meeting because he had split the atomic nucleus which, if true, was of greater importance than the war; and of course Maurice Bowra: “Bowra, champagne and strawberries. Three glasses,” as one of his guests happily commented. The Dons is written with real love and immense sagacity, and the great minds of the past are brought to the page with an intimacy and vivacity that could only come from the pen of Noel Annan. No other book has ever explained so precisely why the dons mattered and the importance of the role they played in shaping higher education-at a time when the nature of learning is ever more the subject of dissension and uncertainty. / Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction I: The Dons Create an Intellectual Aristocracy II: The Genesis of the Modem Don - William Buckland III: The Charismatic Don - John Henry Newman IV: Benjamin Jowett and the Balliol Tradition V: The Don as Scholar - Frederic Maitland VI: The Pastoral Don - The Ethos of King’s VII: The Trinity Scientists - J. J. and Rutherford VIII: The Don as Wit - Maurice Bowra IX: The Don as Performer - George Rylands X: The Don as Dilettante - John Sparrow XI: The Don as Magus - Isaiah Berlin XII: Women Dons in Cambridge XIII: The Don as Administrator XIV: Down with Dons’ Annexe: The Intellectual Aristocracy Index. ISBN 9780226021072

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