Here's a rendering of Hardy's Wessex. The great city, our modern Oxford, is the strongest symbol in the book so far. Jude learned of it then dreamed of it in the first section. Now he arrives at Christminster, but his ideals are quickly overcome by the reality of his situation in the city. Work I like the constant undertone of Jude as a worker. He worked as a youth as a matter of circumstance. He labored through the ancient texts, teaching himself, but slowly, methodically, at the pace of a ch
Christ the Saviour Monastery (Christminster) is a Benedictine monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is also known as the Monastery of Christ the Saviour.
Christminster is also a fictional town and university, modelled on Oxford, that appears in Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure.
Christminster is also a work of interactive fiction by Gareth Rees, set in Christminster. (Although Rees borrowed the place names from Hardy, his Christminster is modelled more on Cambridge.)
