A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 1, The University to 1546 (History of the University of Cambridge) | 
 enlarge | Author: Damian Riehl Leader
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 424
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0521328829
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.42659
EAN: 9780521328821
ASIN: 0521328829
Publication Date: March 31, 1989
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Product Description
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.
Book Description
The University of Cambridge has been a federation of colleges for centuries; in the last hundred years it has also become a centre of international fame in many disciplines, with numerous faculties and departments. Volume IV of A History of the University of Cambridge covers the years 1870-1990, and explores the fascinating labryinth of the federation and the nature of this extraordinay academic growth; it also sketches the society of the University and its place in the world; the role of religion and learning; the entry of women; and the leading characters in the story SH Henry Sidgwick, F. W. Maitland, Gowland Hopkins, Ernest Rutherford, and many others up to our own times.
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