Oxford Reference Search Results

Domestic Buildings   Quick reference

Malcolm Airs

The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)

... to Aldous Huxley , Evelyn Waugh , and Kazuo Ishiguro should properly be considered as primary sources. The secondary literature on the high‐status house is vast and can be treated only in a perfunctory manner here. Until relatively recently, much of it was written by architects or art historians, and concentrated on developments in architectural style which reflected contemporary perceptions of aesthetic value, often with an underlying polemical message for current practice. Thus, the needs of the Gothic Revival in the 19th century prompted the...

Law   Reference library

An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age

...of the assize judges to the county towns of England and Wales remained an essential administrative point of contact between the centre and the localities; they were also perceived by Georgian governments as primary media for communicating the good news about equal rights under common law and for moral suasion of the lower orders. And in the absence of real *policing [7] , substantial property owners and the proliferating business community in London and other cities looked to the criminal law as the primary safeguard for their property against what they were...

Literary Theory   Reference library

An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age

...depress sales. Convinced by these arguments, Coleridge claims to have withheld the rest of the deduction and contented himself with ‘the main result’, the definition of the imagination. The paragraphs that conclude this chapter do align perception and artistic creation with an absolute creative force. The creative power evident in art (the secondary imagination) is an echo of the creative work manifest in perception (the primary imagination), which in turn is nothing less than ‘a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I...

28 The History of the Book in Italy   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to the Book

...cent. Primary schooling became obligatory in 1877 , but a lack of resources and the opposition of the clergy meant that the law remained a dead letter in many places; in 1911 the number of Italians with inadequate literacy skills still averaged 38 per cent. 8 The 20 th and 21 st centuries: two wars, Fascism, and after In 1901 , the Italian book trade presented geographical and cultural anomalies that remain substantially true today. Rome was the political capital; Milan, dominated by the rivalry between *Sonzogno and Treves, was the economic and...

2 The Sacred Book   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to the Book

...Church also struggled to define and understand itself separately from Judaism. And it wondered how it could appeal to the Gentiles without losing its original Jewish identity. Finally, the problem associated with the delay of the parousia (second coming of Jesus) and the end of the world served as motivating factors in committing Jesus’ message to writing. Although Christianity was an apocalyptic sect within Palestinian Judaism and Jesus was a Palestinian Jew, the world of the New Testament was dominated by Greek language and culture; the language itself...