A History of the University of Cambridge
A History of the University of Cambridge
$241.00
USDThis volume brings to completion the four-volume series, a vital contribution to academic history. Special features of this volume relate it to social and political history--especially to the gentry who provided patronage and recruits, as well as the royal court and parliament. The history of the university features extensive material on its architectural heritage, and a chapter on such intellectual giants between 1660-1740 as Richard Bentley and Isaac Newton.
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Volume 1: The University to 1546
0-521-32882-9 Hardback $90.00 C
Volume 3: 1750-1870
0-521-35060-3 Hardback $130.00 C
Volume 4: 1870-1990
0-521-34350-X Hardback $110.00 C
- 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.
