Oxford and Cambridge

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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. Front Cover Half Title Page Full Title Page 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 Back Cover