Many histories of classical Greece and Rome present gender roles as static universal norms conforming to the dominant patriarchal gender ideology in each culture (e.g., Cowell 1980).

In 1895 Sanderson succeeded Acland as Regius Professor of Medicine. Other medical sciences, including anatomy and pathology, were strengthened, the curriculum and orginazation of Oxford medicine was reformed, and by the 1890s it was possible to get a decent training in the preclinical medical sciences at Oxford, walk the wards for a year or two in London, and, upon examination by a regius professor who still had very few other duties, get an Oxford medical degree.

Am now almost in despair of succeeding with this charming frost-piece by love or gentleness.

My Sif, Even the wide plains, Even Middle Garth's broad reaches, Even Ase's Garth itself Cannot hold our love enclosed.