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Stubbs, William
Stubbs, William (1829–1901). Bishop and historian. Stubbs was one of the last of the Victorian scholars who, like Macaulay, could pursue a separate career yet make a massive contribution to historical study. Born at Knaresborough, son of a solicitor, he remarked that under the shadow of the great castle, he could hardly fail to be interested in history. On graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1848, he became a fellow of Trinity, Oxford, but in 1850 moved to a college living at Navestock in Essex. His private studies led to the regius chair of modern history at Oxford in 1866, which he held until 1883, when he became bishop of Chester, and from 1888 of Oxford. His Select Charters (1860) became prescribed reading for generations of undergraduates, he edited nineteen volumes of the Rolls series, and his Constitutional History appeared from 1873 to 1878. Though a devoted Tory and a high churchman, his historical approach was whiggish: of the English constitution he wrote that his aim was to trace ‘a distinct growth from a well-defined germ to full maturity’. Stubbs was severely taken to task by 20th-cent. historians for sentimentality towards Parliament as an institution. But by refusing to acknowledge the context in which he lived and worked, they convicted themselves of the very fault of which they complained so loudly.
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JOHN CANNON. "Stubbs, William." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Stubbs, William." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-StubbsWilliam.html JOHN CANNON. "Stubbs, William." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-StubbsWilliam.html |
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Stubbs, William
Stubbs, William (1825–1901), was appointed Regius professor of modern history at Oxford in 1866. He was the first substantial scholar to hold such a chair at either university. He showed supreme professional skill, acquired by the study of contemporary German academic method, in the 18 volumes of medieval texts he edited for the Rolls Series, and this was the foundation for his great Constitutional History of [Medieval] England (3 vols, 1874–8), which has been described as ‘one of the most astonishing achievements of the Victorian mind’. Together with his Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History to 1307 (1870), it imposed a pattern and a method on the teaching of history in all British universities which survived until the mid-20th cent. (in Oxford longer), though he published nothing more after his elevation to the bishopric of Chester in 1884 and subsequently (1888) Oxford.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Stubbs, William." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Stubbs, William." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-StubbsWilliam.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Stubbs, William." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-StubbsWilliam.html |
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William Stubbs
William Stubbs 1825–1901, English historian, educated at Oxford. Ordained in 1850, he was a professor of modern history at Oxford until in 1884 he was made bishop of Chester. Stubbs's critical studies of source materials transformed the study of medieval history. His Constitutional History of England (3 vol., 1874–78) and Select Charters (1870, 9th ed. rev. by H. W. Davis, 1913) remain standard textbooks. Stubbs also edited many texts for the "Rolls Series" of medieval English chronicles. |
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"William Stubbs." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "William Stubbs." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Stubbs-W.html "William Stubbs." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Stubbs-W.html |
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Stubbs, William." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Stubbs, William." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-StubbsWilliam.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Stubbs, William." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-StubbsWilliam.html |
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