Everything you need to understand or teach The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald.
Fred Fairly - the son of a minister - received a post as a Junior Fellow in one of Cambridge's colleges, St. Angelicus. Fred is a physicist focusing on the exciting intellectual work of his day. In addition to mentoring younger physics students, the conditions of his appointment include the tuning of musical instruments, and he must practice celibacy (his college had been founded some 500 years earlier by a disputed Catholic...
The Gate of Angels Lesson Plans contain 106 pages of teaching material, including: