C.S. Lewis’s Oxford

The fantastical fictional land of Narnia, famously reached via a magical wardrobe, has many connections to the world in which its creator C.S. Lewis lived. The influence of Oxford can be seen not only in medieval buildings and towers but also in the literature which Lewis encountered there, through a lifetime’s reading and teaching of classical, medieval and renaissance literature. Simon Horobin is the author of C.S. Lewis’s Oxford and in this talk he will examine the role that Oxford, its colleges, libraries, chapels, clubs, common rooms and pubs, played in fostering the work of one of the 20th century’s most influential writers and thinkers.