A History of the University of Cambridge
A History of the University of Cambridge
£174.00
GBPThis volume brings to completion the four-volume A History of the University of Cambridge, and is a vital contribution to the history not only of one major university, but of the academic societies of early modern Europe in general. Its main author, Victor Morgan, has made a special study of the relations between Cambridge and its wider world: the court and church hierarchy which sought to control it in the aftermath of the Reformation; the 'country', that is the provincial gentry; and the wider academic world. Morgan also finds the seeds of contemporary problems of university governance in the struggles which led to and followed the new Elizabethan Statutes of 1570. Christopher Brooke, General Editor and part-author, has contributed chapters on architectural history and among other themes a study of the intellectual giants of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
- The long-awaited completion of a distinguished and genuinely pioneering four-volume series
- Throws new light on relations between Tudor and Stuart government and society, and on the educational, architectural and intellectual achievements of the age
- Employs new and exciting approaches to the study of university history
Reviews & endorsements
'The range and scholarship are impressive, and the vast amount of data here encapsulated adds substantially to our understanding of many of the essential strands of Cambridge's development. … This volume will undoubtedly serve as a vital source of reference for the long-term future for all scholars with a professional interest in the selection of themes here examined and also for the informed general reader with a penchant for university history.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Product details
April 2004Hardback
9780521350594
636 pages
236 × 162 × 38 mm
1.01kg
30 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- General editor's preface
- Preface
- 1. Cambridge saved
- 2. The buildings of Cambridge
- 3. The constitutional revolution of the 1570s
- 4. Cambridge University and the state
- 5. Cambridge and parliament
- 6. Cambridge and 'the country'
- 7. A local habitation: gownsmen and townsmen
- 8. Heads, leases and masters' lodges
- 9. Tutors and students
- 10. The electoral scene in a culture of patronage
- 11. The electoral scene and the court: royal mandates 1558–1640
- 12 Learning and doctrine, 1550–1660
- 13. Cambridge and the puritan revolution
- 14. Cambridge and the scientific revolution
- 15. The syllabus, religion and politics, 1660–1750
- 16. Epilogue
- Bibliographical references.
