A history of the University of Cambridge
This is the first volume of a four-part History of the University of Cambridge, under the general editorship of Professor C.N.L. Brooke, and the first volume on the medieval university as a whole to be published in over a century. It provides a synthesis of the intellectual, social, political and religious life of the early university, and gives serious attention to the development of classroom studies and how they changed with the coming of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Following the first stirrings in the early thirteenth century, the evolution of the university is traced from the original corporation of masters and scholars through the early development of the colleges. The second half of the book focuses on the century from the 1440s to the 1540s, which saw the flowering of the university under Tudor patronage. In the decades preceding the Reformation many colleges were founded, the teaching structures reorganised and the curriculum made more humanistic. The place of Cambridge at the forefront of northern European universities was eventually assured when Henry VIII founded Trinity College in 1546, in the face of changes and difficulties experienced during the course of the Reformation
Print Book, English, 1988-2004
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1988-2004
History
4 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521328821, 9780521350594, 9780521350600, 9780521343503, 0521328829, 052135059X, 0521350603, 052134350X
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V. 1. The university to 1546 / Damian Riehl Leader
v. 2. 1546-1750 / Victor Morgan with a contribution by Christopher Brooke
v. 3. 1750-1870 / Peter Searby
v. 4. 1870-1990 / Christopher N.L. Brooke