A visit to the beautiful and tranquil New College in Oxford.
New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The full name of the college, which was founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham, is The College of St Mary of Winchester in Oxford. Following its completion in 1386, it became known as "New College" to distinguish it from the older existing college of the House of the Blessed Mary (1324), now known as Oriel College.
Its striking architecture has made the college a popular location for film and television, featuring in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again, and His Dark Materials among others.
The college's motto, created by William of Wykeham, is "Manners Makyth Man". The motto was in many respects fairly revolutionary. First, it was written in English, rather than Latin, which makes it very unusual in Oxford, and is especially revolutionary considering the college's age; even St Catherine's College, founded in 1965, has a Latin motto ("Nova et Vetera": "the new and the old"). Secondly, the motto makes a social statement; it is not by birth, money, or property that an individual is defined, but by how he or she behaves towards other people. Wykeham's motto is reminiscent of the insight found in Aristotle's Ethics: that a man or a woman is what he or she does, and what we do is what we are.
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