Structures of learning

Introduction to visual sources: images, objects, the built environment, and seventeenth-century science

This unit provides a brief introduction to Special Subject 14 as a whole and to 'Structures of Learning' in particular.

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Image for Central Oxford in 1578
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The evolution of central Oxford in the seventeenth century

This unit explores aspects of the learned values of the early seventeenth century by tracing the evolution of the Bodleian Library-Schools Quadrangle complex before 1640 and the buildings clustered around it after 1660.

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Image for University Church
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Image for Divinity School, 1427-83
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Image for Arts End, 1610-12
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Image for Accessing unchained books
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Image for James I 1616
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Image for The Bodleian and the King
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Image for Upper Gallery, 1618-19
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Image for Selden End, 1634-7
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Image for Convocation House, 1634-7
Oxford in 1675: Loggan's Oxonia illustrata

Loggan's superb set of 40 engravings captures for the first time the built environment of Oxford in great detail.

 

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