St John's College, Cambridge

St John's College, Cambridge
Author: Peter Linehan
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 779
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1843836084

The first book to describe fully the foundations and development of St John's College Cambridge, highlighting the role its alumni have always played in the life of the nation. Within a generation of its foundation on the site of a decayed hospital at the behest of Lady Margaret Beaufort, England's queen mother, the College of St John the Evangelist had established itself as one of the kingdom's foremosteducational establishments: in the words of one notable contemporary, as 'an university within it selfe' indeed. And in the period thereafter - the years between 1511 and 1989, the period covered by the present volume - St John's has continued to provide its fair share of Prime Ministers and other politicians, bishops, Nobel laureates, artists, writers, and sporting heroes, as well as to irrigate the rich loam of the nation's history in all sorts of other unexpected ways and places. However, not until the organisation of the College's archives and records in the present generation has it been possible to describe in sufficient detail the full story of that progress and adequately to trace the College's development and achievements in recent centuries. The present history, the first since the early 1700s to provide a systematic and informed account of the subject, seeks to make good this historical defect. It is published as part of the celebration of the quincentenary of the College's foundation.

A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 1, The University to 1546

A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 1, The University to 1546
Author: Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1988
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521328821

This is the first of a four volume 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 of the University 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 reorganized, 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.

A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4, 1870-1990

A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4, 1870-1990
Author: Christopher Brooke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 696
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521343503

This is the fourth volume of A History of the University of Cambridge and explores the extraordinary growth in size and academic stature of the University between 1870 and 1990. Though the University has made great advances since the 1870s, when it was viewed as a provincial seminary, it is also the home of tradition: a federation of colleges, one over 700 years old, one of the 1970s. This book seeks to penetrate the nature of the colleges and of the federation; and to show the way in which university faculties and departments have come to vie with the colleges for this predominant role. It attempts to unravel a fascinating institutional story of the society of the University and its place in the world. It explores in depth the themes of religion and learning, and of the entry of women into a once male environment. There are portraits of seminal and characteristic figures of the Cambridge scene, and there is a sketch - inevitably selective but wide-ranging - of many disciplines, an extensive study in intellectual and academic history.

Catholics in Cambridge

Catholics in Cambridge
Author: Nicholas Rogers
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2003
Genre: Cambridge (England)
ISBN: 9780852445686

A Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Baker

A Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Baker
Author: Frans Korsten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2010-02-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521128889

Dr Korsten provides a biographical sketch of Thomas Baker and reconstructs his library of 4300 titles.

Progress and Problems in Medieval England

Progress and Problems in Medieval England
Author: Richard Britnell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2002-05-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521522731

A series of essays on the society and economy of England between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.

Translating Resurrection

Translating Resurrection
Author: Gergely M. Juhász
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 900425952X

Translating Resurrection examines the debate between William Tyndale and George Joye at the beginning of the English Reformation. Occasioned by Joye’s coining ‘life after this’ for Tyndale’s ‘resurrection’ in Joye’s 1534 edition of Tyndale’s New Testament, this fascinating but little-known debate provides unique insights into the reformers’ beliefs concerning post-mortem existence, such as the question of immortality of the soul, soul-sleep, prayers to saints and the doctrine of Purgatory. By providing a thoroughgoing historical and theological context, the book presents an original look at this important episode from the life of the exiled protestant English community. The result will realign scholarship on Tyndale as well as centuries of neglect of Joye’s contributions to early modern bible translation.