A History Of Queens College Cambridge 1448 1986
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Author | : John Twigg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 533 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780851154886 |
The religious changes of the 16th century saw the Queens' become a centre of humanist learning: John Fisher and Erasmus were both members of the college.
Author | : Jonathan Dowson |
Publisher | : Grosvenor House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2022-02-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1839759488 |
Queens' College, part of the University of Cambridge, was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou, wife of the inept and ill-fated Henry VI. The first of its 40 Presidents to date was Andrew Doket, an ambitious Catholic priest, while the latest, the eminent economist Dr. Mohamed El-Erian, was installed in 2020, in the midst of the Covid pandemic. This account traces the history of the College through the lives and times of each of the 40 Presidents in chronological order. Their varied careers, (which encompass the martyrdom of Saint John Fisher, incarceration in a prison ship in the Civil War and preaching at the burning of heretics on Cathedral Green at Ely), illustrate the interactions between the academic community and the social, religious, cultural and political life in Britain, over five and a half centuries.
Author | : David McKitterick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780521308038 |
The third and final volume of A History of Cambridge University Press, covering 1873-1972.
Author | : Kevin C. Knox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2003-11-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521663106 |
Cambridge University's Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics is one of the world's most celebrated academic positions. Since its foundation in 1663, the chair has been held by seventeen men who represent some of the most influential minds in science and technology. Principally a social history of mathematics and physics, the story of these great natural philosophers and mathematical physicists is told here by some of the finest historians of science. This informative work offers new perspectives on world famous scientists including Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac, and Stephen Hawking.
Author | : Alexandra da Costa |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2012-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199653569 |
This text investigates how Syon Abbey responded to the religious turbulence of the 1520s and 1530s. It examines the 11 books 3 brothers had printed during this period and argues that the Bridgettines used vernacular printing to engage with religious and political developments that threatened their understanding of orthodox faith.
Author | : Ashwani Saith |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2019-04-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3030124223 |
This book examines the life and work of Ajit Singh (1940-2015), a leading radical post-Keynesian applied economist who made major contributions to the policy-oriented study of both developed and developing economies, and was a key figure in the life and evolution of the Cambridge Faculty of Economics. Unorthodox, outspoken, and invariably rigorous, Ajit Singh made highly significant contributions to industrial economics, corporate governance and finance, and stock markets – developing empirically sound refutations of neoclassical tenets. He was much respected for his challenges both to orthodox economics, and to the one-size-fits-all free-market policy prescriptions of the Bretton Woods institutions in relation to late-industrialising developing economies. Throughout his career, Ajit remained an analyst and apostle of State-enabled accelerated industrialisation as the key to transformative development in the post-colonial Global South. The author traces Ajit Singh’s radical perspectives to their roots in the early post-colonial nationalist societal aspirations for self-determination and autonomous and rapid egalitarian development – whether in his native Punjab, India, or the third world – and further explores the nuanced interface between Ajit’s simultaneous affinity, seemingly paradoxical, both with socialism and Sikhism. This intellectual biography will appeal to students and researchers in Development Economics, History of Economic Thought, Development Studies, and Post-Keynesian Economics, as well as to policy makers and development practitioners in the fields of industrialisation, development and finance within the strategic framework of contemporary globalisation.
Author | : Euthalia Lisa Panayotidis |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1442645431 |
Contributing to the social, intellectual, and academic history of universities, the collection provides rich approaches to integral issues at the intersection of higher education and wartime, including academic freedom, gender, peace and activism on campus, and the challenges of ethnic diversity. The contributors place the historical university in several contexts, not the least of which is the university's substantial power to construct and transform intellectual discourse and promote efforts for change both on- and off-campus.
Author | : Robin Darwall-Smith |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2023-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198883757 |
Alicja Bielak's chapter in this book, 'On the Margins of Paduan Medical Lectures. Self-reflection and Critical Attitude in the Notes of Jan Brozek (1585-1652)', is published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Academic History of Universities XXXVI/1 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.
Author | : David Baldwin |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2011-08-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0752468979 |
Elizabeth Woodville is undoubtedly a historical character whose life no novelist would ever have dared invent. She has been portrayed as an enchantress; as an unprincipled advancer of her family's fortunes and a plucky but pitiful queen in Shakespeare's histories. She has been alternatively championed and vilified by her contemporaries and five centuries of historians, dramatists and novelists, but what was she really life? In this revealing account of Elizabeth's life David Baldwin sets out to tell the story of this complex and intriguing woman. Was she the malign influence many of her critics held her to be? Was she a sorceress who bewitched Edward IV? What was the fate of her two sons, the 'Princes in the Tower'? What did she, of all people, think had become of them, and why did Richard III mount a campaign of vilification against her? David Baldwin traces Elizabeth's career and her influence on the major events of her husband Edward IV's reign, and in doing so he brings to life the personal and domestic politics of Yorkist England and the elaborate ritual of court life.
Author | : Alan B Cobban |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134224303 |
First Published in 1999. This work presents a composite view of medieval English university life. The author offers detailed insights into the social and economic conditions of the lives of students, their teaching masters and fellows. The experiences of college benefactors, women and university servants are also examined, demonstrating the vibrancy they brought to university life. The second half of the book is concerned with the complex methods of teaching and learning, the regime of studies taught, the relationship between the universities in Oxford and Cambridge, as well as the relationship between "town" and "gown".