By Wilfrid Prest
ISBN-10: 0191563994
ISBN-13: 9780191563997
ISBN-10: 0199550298
ISBN-13: 9780199550296
Attorney, pass judgement on, flesh presser, poet, instructor, and architect, William Blackstone was once a tremendous determine in eighteenth century public existence. Over his diverse and superb profession he made profound contributions to English politics, legislation, schooling, and tradition via involvements in criminal perform, Parliament, and the college of Oxford. all through he additionally remained engaged in his society's literary and non secular existence. regardless of the breadth and effect of his paintings, Blackstone the fellow continues to be little recognized and poorly understood, the shortcoming of engagement along with his private and non-private lifestyles status in stark distinction to the size of his impression, quite at the improvement and educating of the law.
Blackstone's 'Commentaries at the legislation of England continues to be the main celebrated and influential textual content within the Anglo-American common-law culture. This nice e-book has unavoidably overshadowed its writer, whereas the dispersal of his own papers additional complicates the duty of knowing the fellow at the back of the paintings. the inability of a radical account of Blackstone's lifestyles has fuelled controversy surrounding his highbrow historical past and political beliefs. used to be he the deeply reactionary conservative painted by way of Bentham, or fairly a dedicated reformer and early champion of human rights?
the current biography makes complete use of a substantial physique of latest proof that has emerged lately to make clear the existence, paintings, and occasions of this missed determine in English and American heritage. Exploring Blackstone's relatives upbringing and personal lifestyles, his political actions and beliefs, his non secular outlook and championing of the enlightenment, Prest weaves jointly the threads of a rare brain and career.
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12, 1737 (1738), 5–6, 17–18. ⁵⁸ Ibid. 23–27. ⁵⁹ L. Stone, ‘The Size and Composition of the Oxford Student Body 1580–1910’, in The University in Society Volume I: Oxford and Cambridge from the 14th to the Early 19th Century (1974), 57, 97. ⁶⁰ Clitherow, v. For an earlier example of such an oration, see n. 37 above. 26 2. ⁶¹ The deciding factor was possibly a newly-instituted scholarship available to former Charterhouse boys at Pembroke College, Oxford. At all events William Blackstone formally joined the University of Oxford by matriculating as a commoner of Pembroke, swearing allegiance to King George II, and subscribing to the 39 articles of the Church of England, on 12 December 1738.
53–4; S. Rothblatt, Tradition and Change in English Liberal Education (1976), 45. ⁴⁸ Clarke, Classical Education, 50–57. 23 w il l i a m bl ack s t one meaning, in the English vernacular as well as the classical languages. It also provided those who stayed the course with a substantial set of common cultural, historical, and philosophical reference points. These were real virtues, notwithstanding much mechanical and repetitious teaching, emphasis on technical mastery rather than individual creativity, lack of directly vocational content, and the snobbery likely to accompany any form of élite activity.
While Pembroke was a fairly recent addition to the University of Oxford, that university itself proudly claimed King Alfred as founder, although its real origins went back only to the twelfth century, when scholars fi rst came to live and teach in the town. The Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century brought significant changes to the clerical medieval university, including the influx of numerous students seeking a broadly humanistic education for various lay careers, as distinct from the preparation for holy orders which had been its previous major role.