A History of the University of Cambridge in Four Volumes: Volume I The University to 1546; Volume II 1546-1750; Volume III 1750-1870; Volume IV 1870-1990

Leader, Damian Riehl; Morgan, Victor; Searby, Peter; Brooke, Christopher N.L.

ISBN 10: 0521328829 / ISBN 13: 9780521328821

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988

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All four volumes in this History of the University of Cambridge which were published by Cambridge University Press over the period from 1988 to 2004. Each volume has the bookplate of Anthony Edwards, Life Fellow of Gonville & Caius College and retired Professor of Biometry at the University of Cambridge. These books were part of his collection of Cambridge books which was a reflection of his keen and active interest in the governance of the Collegiate University. Volume I (1988) has a few tiny nicks to the edges of the jacket but is otherwise clean and unmarked. Volume II has a little browning to the page edges and the jacket has a small scratch to the front panel and a small brown mark near the base of the spine. It has also been signed and dated in the year of publication (2004) with a dedication to Anthony Edwards by Christopher Brooke who wrote a contribution for this volume as well as being the general editor for the whole series. Volume III (19970 has a little dark marking to the bottom corners of the page edges and the jacket has thin two inch long dark mark running up from the bottom edge of the front panel. Volume IV (1993) is signed by the author, Christopher Brooke. It has a little dark marking to the bottom corners of the pages. The jacket has a small nick at the base of the spine, a dent to the rear panel and a little rubbing to the top corners. Heavy item due to the 4 volumes so there will be an additional postage charge for overseas orders.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A History of the University of Cambridge in Four Volumes: Volume I The University to 1546; Volume II 1546-1750; Volume III 1750-1870; Volume IV 1870-1990
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521328829
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521328821
• Reliure: Original Cloth
• Édition: First Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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.

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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.