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OXFORD UNIVERSITY “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Oxford University HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 2,785 BCE A barrow was constructed, by someone, at what is now Oxford, England. Oxford NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT Oxford University “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 2,000 BCE The “Rollright Stones” were set up, by someone, at what is now Oxford, England. Oxford DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. Oxford University “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1,395 BCE A cemetery was begun, by someone, at what is now Oxford, England. CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT Oxford University “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 400 BCE Land in the vicinity of what is now Oxford, England began to be cultivated by agriculturalists. Trade routes were being formed along the Thames valley. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 150 BCE Pottery has been found that was made, by someone, at this point in time, near what is now Oxford, England. Oxford HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 100 BCE Construction of a ditch from the Thames to the Chiltern, possibly as a boundary between the Dobunni and the Catuvellauni tribes. (This line would serve later as a defense against the Romans.) OXFORD HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 43 CE A civilian town developed at what is now Oxford, England. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 70 CE Romano-British settlements at what is now Oxford, England. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 185 CE An earthwork rampart was erected in the vicinity of what is now Oxford, England. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 250 CE Outgrowing the earlier scatter of Romano-British potteries on both banks of the Thames, production was becoming concentrated on the Oxford potteries, producing red-coated ware. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 350 CE A bath suite installed at what is now Oxford, England sported mosaic floors. Ah, Roman luxury! HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 420 CE Another cemetery was created at what is now Oxford, England. St. Jerome, (S.E. Hieronymus), born 340?, Latin scholar. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 571 CE Success by the Anglican invader Ceawlin over the island Britons. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 639 CE In Britain, Birinus was baptized as King. At his death Agilbert the Frank would be consecrated, but much later he would become the Bishop of Paris. At about this point a Tibetan king Srontsen Gampo established the Tibetan capital at Lhasa, and ordered that the Tibetan language be written in the Kashmiri script of North India. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 740 CE Wattle fences dating to this period have been found at what is now Oxford, England. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 823 CE Egbert beat Ceolwulf at Oxford. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 886 CE Since King Alfred committed the defence of the navigable Thames to Ethered of Oxford, we infer that in this period that area must have been able to field a significant military force. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 912 CE The burghal hideage for what was then known as “Oxna forda” shows that what is now known as Oxford was the centre for 2,400 hides. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 924 CE King Alfred’s son Aelfweard died at Oxford. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 925 CE Two Oxford moneyers struck coins signed “MO OX URBIS.” HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1002 November 13, Friday (Old Style): On St. Brice’s Day, the Danish community in Oxford was massacred. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1004 Secular canons were established at St. Frideswide’s Oxford. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1009 The Danes burned the town of Oxford, England. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1013 Lyfing became Archbishop of Canterbury. Oxford surrendered and gave hostages. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1018 Cnut chose Oxford for the meeting at which the Danes and the English swore to uphold the law of Edgar. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1117 Theobald of Etampes (a secular priest) and magister Oxenefordie lectured in Oxford to audiences to up to a hundred clerks. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1133 Robert Pullen lectured in theology at Oxford. At the Augustinian priory and hospice that Rahere, a German court jester famed for his juggling, had established at Smithfield, to help the monks pay for their charitable activities, in this year King Henry I allowed the beginning an annual fair similar to ones held in Markgröningen, Rothenburg, and Urach in southern Germany. With Saint Bartholomew being the patron saint of butchers and shepherds, with the special day of this saint being August 24th, the Bartholomew’s Fair would be held during the month of August. For many years Rahere himself would be Lord of the Bartholomew’s Fair at the Smithfield meat market, and that market would come to be associated not only with juggling, but also with fire walking and pugilism (holy charity has very many faces). HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1167 The Lombard League was founded. King Dermot MacMurrough returned to Leinster with a small force. IRELAND King Henry II ordered all English students on the Continent to return to England. Many of these students decided to settle in Oxford in an attempt to create the kind of university they had seen in Europe. Disputes between the students and residents led to riots. Some of these students fled to Cambridge where they established a new university. The loss of Oxford’s students hurt the local economy and in 1214 traders and merchants invited them back again. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1190 Oxford burned. THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Oxford University HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1201 John Grim was master of the schools at Oxford. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1209 The 1st students arrived in Cambridge after fleeing from rioting in Oxford. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1214 June 20, Friday (Old Style): A Papal legate issued an ordinance laying down the PRIVILEGES OF STUDENTS and mentioning the need to appoint a university chancellor, after Robert Grosseteste (Great Head) served briefly as interim master of schools. Geoffrey de Lucy was confirmed as First Chancellor. OXFORD HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1227 Oxford Jews established a synagogue on land at Pennyfarthing Street given by St. Frideswide’s. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1231 Henry III ordered that NO CLERK SHOULD REMAIN AT OXFORD who was not UNDER THE DISCIPLINE OR TUITION of one of the masters of the schools, thus strengthening the position of University Halls.The Liber Augustalis law code, for Sicily. OXFORD Oxford Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II paraded through Ravenna with his personal menagerie including camels, panthers, elephants, and possibly the 1st giraffe to pay a visit to Europe (a gift from Egyptian sultan al-Kamil). HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1238 King Henry III of England had the Roman wall in the vicinity of the Tower of London demolished to make way for the construction of a great new curtain wall round the east, north and west sides. The new wall doubled the area covered by the fortress, enclosing the neighboring church of St. Peter ad Vincula (St. Peter in Jail). The wall was reinforced by nine new towers, the strongest at the corners (the Salt, Martin and Devereux). Of these all but two (the Flint and Brick) remain much as originally built. The fortress was surrounded by a moat that was flooded with water from the Thames. William le Marish, accused of conspiring to kill the King at Woodstock, was ordered to be so loaded with irons during his sojourn in the Tower that there could be no chance of his escape prior to execution. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY Rioting Oxford students provoked an interdict on the city. HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1249 University College, the 1st college of Oxford University, was founded by William of Durham. Balliol would start up in 1263 (finally receiving a charter in 1282) and Merton, the 1st residential college, would be getting itself started during 1262-1264 (beginning of course with the eight nephews of Walter de Merton). Merton would set the collegiate pattern which would become standard in both Oxford and Cambridge. These colleges would be self-governing institutions in which teachers and students lived together as a community. Fourteen other colleges would be founded by the end of the 16th century: St Edmund Hall (1278), Exeter College (1314), Oriel College (1326), Queen’s College (1340/1341), New College (1379), Lincoln College (1427), All Souls College (1438), Magdalen College (1458), Brasenose College (1509), Corpus Christi College (1517), Christ Church College (1546), Trinity College (1554), St John’s College (1555) and Jesus College (1571). Penbroke College would be founded in 1624. Hertford College was created in 1740. Four more colleges would be established in the 19th Century including two for women (Margaret Hall in 1878 and Somerville College HDT WHAT? INDEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORD UNIVERSITY in 1879).

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