A lavishly illustrated history of Oxford and Cambridge with something on them as towns, but chiefly and primarily a history of the universities and colleges - their parallel but very different stories, compared and contrasted and the ties between their history and architecture emphasized.
Author(s): Christopher Brooke & Roger Highfield
Edition: First
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1988
Language: English
Commentary: Bookmarked, OCR (Clearscan)
Pages: 408
City: Cambridge
Tags: History, Oxford, Cambridge
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Copyright
1 Cambridge. Emmanuel College: the chapel front and long gallery by Christopher Wren, 1667-77
Contents
List of illustrations
List of maps
Preface
Map
1. The Cambridge region, including major roads. Roman. medieval and eighteenth-century
2. The Oxford region
3. Oxford before the colleges. c1250
4. Cambridge to 1500. Churches and colleges are shown: the university schoold formed the quadrangle almost encircled by King's
5 Modern Oxford
6 Cambridge since 1830
1 Cambridge
2 Oxford
3 The formation of the universities
Oxford
Cambridge
4 The first Oxford colleges
5 The first Cambridge colleges
6 1450-1550: the colleges take over
Oxford
Cambridge 1450-1550: the formation of the academic quarter
7 1550-1640: Crammer to Laud - The Anglican establishment at Cambridge and Oxford
The new colleges in Cambridge: Caius, Emmanuel and Sidney Sussex
Cambridge: the statutes of 1570
Religious change: recusants and Puritans
The changing pattern of entry
Oxford: Jesus, Wadham and Pembroke
Libraries and printing presses: Sir Thomas Bodley
New subjects to study
Links witll Parliament and the crown
Oxford. the Stuarts and William Laud
8 From the age of Cromwell to the age of Newton
Oxford
Cambridge
9 Oxford and Cambridge in the eighteenth century
Oxford
Cambridge from Bentley to Wordsworth
10 Cambridge and Oxford 1800-1920
The Cambridge of Hopkins and Whewell
Thw Oxford of Newman
1880-1920
11 Epilogue: the miid twentieth century
Bibliograpical References
Index
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