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Zusatztext this book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the refugees who so enriched British culture in the 1930s and 1940s. Informationen zum Autor Sally Crawford is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology in Oxford, where her research into the archives in collaboration with co-editor Katharina Ulmschneider has led to myriad exhibitions, lectures, and publications on the history of archaeology. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Co-Director of the Historic Environment Image Resource, co-founder and Chair of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, and monograph co-editor of the series Studies in Early Medicine.Katharina Ulmschneider is a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and an Associate Member of the Society of Archivists. She has published widely on medieval archaeology and economy and also on the impact of metal detecting in archaeology, and her co-edited book Markets in Early Medieval Europe won the British Archaeology Book award in 2004. Since 2013 she has been Co-Director of the Historic Environment Image Resource alongside Sally Crawford.Jas Elsner is the Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, as well as Visiting Professor of Art and Religion at the University of Chicago. He is widely published and serves as the joint editor of two monograph series, Greek Culture in the Roman World and Ashgate Studies in Pilgrimage. Since 2013 he has been Principal Investigator on the Empires of Faith Project between the British Museum and Wolfson College, Oxford, which explores the visual cultures of world religions in the Mediterranean and Asia between 200 and 800 AD and will form the basis of a forthcoming monograph series from Oxford University Press. Klappentext Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945 addresses Oxford's role as a shelter, a meeting point, and a centre of thought in the arts and humanities in the midst of WWII, interweaving personal and global histories to explore how refugee scholars had a profound and lasting impact on the development of British culture. Zusammenfassung Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945 addresses Oxford's role as a shelter, a meeting point, and a centre of thought in the arts and humanities in the midst of WWII, interweaving personal and global histories to explore how refugee scholars had a profound and lasting impact on the development of British culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Oxford's Ark: World War II Refugees in the Arts and Humanities I. General 1: Jä Elsner: Pfeiffer, Fraenkel, and Refugee Scholarship in Oxford during and after the Second World War 2: Anthony Grenville: Academic Refugees in Wartime Oxford: An Overview 3: Laurence Brockliss: Welcoming and Supporting Refugee Scholars: The Role of Oxford's Colleges 4: Philip Davies: Out of the Archives: Oxford, the SPSL, and Literae Humaniores Refugee Scholars 5: Harold Mytum: Networks of Association: The Social and Intellectual Lives of Academics in Manx Internment Camps During World War II II. Archaeology and Philology 6: Katharina Lorenz: Otto Brendel and the Classical Archaeologists at Oxford 7: Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider: 'The Bund' and the Oxford Philological Society, 1939-45 8: David Gill: Brian Shefton: Classical Archaeologist 9: Katharina Ulmschneider and Sally Crawford: The 'Cheshire Cat': Paul Jacobsthal's Journey from Marburg to Oxford 10: Christopher Stray: Eduard Fraenkel (1888-1970) III. History 11: Oswyn Murray: Arnaldo Momigliano on Peace and Liberty (1940) 12: Charmian Brinson and Marian Malet: Rudolf Olden in Oxford 13: Kate Lowe: 'I shall snuffle about and make relations': Nicolai Rubinstein, the Historian of Renaissance Florence, in Oxford during the War 14: Conrad...
