A history of the University of Cambridge

Author(s)

• Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence
• Leader, Damian Riehl
• Morgan, Victor
• Searby, Peter

Bibliographic Information

A history of the University of Cambridge

general editor, Christopher Brooke

Cambridge University Press, 1988-

• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3 : hardback
• v. 4 : hardback

Other Title

The university to 1546

Note

v. 1. The university to 1546 / Damian Riehl Leader

v. 2. 1546-1750 / Victor Morgan ; with a contribution by Christopher Brooke

v. 3. 1750-1870 / Peter Searby

v. 4. 1870-1990 / Christopher N.L. Brooke

Includes bibliographies and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780521328821

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• General editor's preface
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. Origins
• 2. Hostels, convents and colleges
• 3. Teaching
• 4. The trivium
• 5. The quadrivium
• 6. The philosophies
• 7. Theology
• 8. Law
• 9. Medicine
• 10. Interlude and expansion
• 11. Internal reform
• 12. John Fisher and Lady Margaret
• 13. The Henrician Reformation
• Bibliography
• Index.

Volume

v. 4 : hardback ISBN 9780521343503

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• 1. Prologue
• 2. The university and the colleges
• 3. The second Royal Commission and university reform, 1872-1914
• 4. Religion, 1870-1914
• 5. Theology
• 6. The natural sciences
• 7. Classics, law and history
• 8. The society
• 9. Women, 1868-1948
• 10. The Great War, 1914-19
• 11. Sir Hugh Anderson, the Asquith Commission and its sequel
• 12. The University Library
• 13. The dons' religion in twentieth-century Cambridge
• 14. Religion and learning: C. H. Dodd and David Knowles
• 15. A diversity of disciplines
• 16. The Second World War
• 17. The university and the world, 1945-90: a cosmopolitan society
• 18. The new colleges
• 19. Epilogue
• Appendix 1. Fellows and undergraduates of the men's colleges, 1869-1919
• Appendix 2. Student numbers by college, 1990-1
• Appendix 3. College incomes, c.1926
• Appendix 4. A note on schools
• Appendix 5. Profession and status of Cambridge students
• Bibliographical references
• Index.

Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780521350594

Description

This volume brings to completion the four-volume A History of the University of Cambridge, and is a vital contribution to the history not only of one major university, but of the academic societies of early modern Europe in general. Its main author, Victor Morgan, has made a special study of the relations between Cambridge and its wider world: the court and church hierarchy which sought to control it in the aftermath of the Reformation; the 'country', that is the provincial gentry; and the wider academic world. Morgan also finds the seeds of contemporary problems of university governance in the struggles which led to and followed the new Elizabethan Statutes of 1570. Christopher Brooke, General Editor and part-author, has contributed chapters on architectural history and among other themes a study of the intellectual giants of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• General editor's preface
• Preface
• 1. Cambridge saved
• 2. The buildings of Cambridge
• 3. The constitutional revolution of the 1570s
• 4. Cambridge University and the state
• 5. Cambridge and parliament
• 6. Cambridge and 'the country'
• 7. A local habitation: gownsmen and townsmen
• 8. Heads, leases and masters' lodges
• 9. Tutors and students
• 10. The electoral scene in a culture of patronage
• 11. The electoral scene and the court: royal mandates 1558-1640
• 12 Learning and doctrine, 1550-1660
• 13. Cambridge and the puritan revolution
• 14. Cambridge and the scientific revolution
• 15. The syllabus, religion and politics, 1660-1750
• 16. Epilogue
• Bibliographical references.

Volume

v. 3 : hardback ISBN 9780521350600

Description

Cambridge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a place of sharp contrasts. At one extreme a gifted minority studied mathematics intensively for the Tripos, the honours degree. At the other, most undergraduates faced meagre academic demands and might idle their time away. The dons, the fellows of the colleges that constituted the University, were chosen for their Tripos performance and included scholars of international reputation such as Whewell and Sidgwick, but also men who treated their fellowships as sinecures. A pillar of the Church of England that denied membership to non-Anglicans, the University functioned largely as a seminary, while teaching more mathematics than theology. This volume describes the complex institution of the University, and also the beginnings of its transformation after 1850 - under the pressure of public opinion and the State - into the University as it exists today: inclusive in its membership, diverse in its curricula, and staffed by committed scholars and teachers.

Table of Contents

• General editor's preface
• Introduction
• 1. Townscape and University: topographical change
• 2. The University: its constitution, personnel and tasks
• 3. Colleges: buildings, masters and fellows
• 4. Colleges: tutors, bursars and money
• 5. Mathematics, law and medicine
• 6. Science and other studies
• 7. Religion in the University: its rituals and significance
• 8. The orthodox and latitudinarian traditions, 1700-1800
• 9. Cambridge religion 1780-1840: evangelicanism
• 10. Cambridge religion: the mid-Victorian years
• 1. The University as a political institution, 1750-1815
• 12. The background to University reform, 1830-50
• 13. Cambridge and reform, 1815-1870
• 14. The Graham Commission and its aftermath
• 15. The undergraduate experience, I: Philip Yorke and the Wordsworths
• 16. The undergraduate experience, II: Charles Astor Bristed and William Everett
• 17. The undergraduate experience, III: William Thomson
• 18. Games for gownsmen: walking, athletics, boating and ball games
• 19. Leisure for town and gown: music, debating and drama
• Appendices
• Bibliography.

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Details

• NCID: BA06619137
• ISBN:
  • 0521328829
  • 052135059X
  • 0521350603
  • 052134350X
• LCCN: 87025586
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 377.233
  • LCC : LF109
  • DC19 : 378.426/59
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : University of Cambridge -- History