The University of Cambridge: From the earliest times to the royal injunctions of 1535

The struggle against the pope chiefly carried on, at this

Lollardism suppressed in England reappears in Bohemia

Lollardism not the commencement of the Reformation

Huber's estimate of the results of the suppression of Lol-

lardism at the universities

His statement of the facts erroneous

His explanation of the decline of the universities incom-

plete

The university of Paris regains her former preeminence

JEAN CHARLIER DE GERSON

His two treatises De Modis and De Concordia

Illustration they afford of the final results attained to in

scholastic metaphysics .

Cessation of the intercourse between Paris and the English

ib.

Circumstances that led to the diminished influence of the
university of Paris in the 15th century.

The policy of Gerson opposed at Basel by the English
Ultramontanists :

France enacts the Pragmatic Sanction.

The action of the Statute of Provisors prejudicial to the

universities

284

Papal patronage less injurious than home patronage

285

ib.

Huber's criticism gives a just appreciation of the facts

Ultramontanist tendencies at Cambridge

286

287

THE BARNWELL PROCESS, A.D. 1430

ib.

Diocesan authority of the bishops of Ely reasserted over the

This authority abolished by pope Martin v in the Barnwell

Process.

288

Is not afraid to call in question the authority of the fathers

and the schoolmen

292

He nevertheless advocates submission to the temporal
authority of the pope

ib.

houses.

Statutes of the foundation

Superior advantages in this respect possessed by the religious

Erection of the Divinity Schools at Cambridge, A.D. 1398

Erection of the Arts Schools and Civil Law Schools

Learning forsakes the monastery

Its patrons begin to despair of the religious orders

WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM

Foundation of New College, Oxford, A.D. 1380

The college endowed with lands purchased from religious

A model for subsequent foundations

The second stage in endowment of colleges,-the appropria-

ib.

These colleges endowed from the property of alien priories

Early statutes of King's College.

Commissioners originally appointed to prepare the statutes

305

William Millington, the first provost

Refuses his assent to the new statutes, and is ejected

The statutes borrowed from those of New College, Oxford.

Qualifications necessary for admission to scholarships .

Studies prescribed or permitted.

Term of probation required before election to a fellowship

Special privileges and exemptions granted to the society

Object aimed at by the society

Objections of William Millington

Significance of Cardinal Beaufort's bequest

Ineffectual efforts of the university to annul the exclusive

privileges of the college

Effect of these privileges on the college at a later period

FOUNDATION OF QUEENS' COLLEGE, A.D. 1448

Margaret of Anjou

Her Ultramontane sympathies

Her petition to her husband

Fuller's criticism

College of ST. BERNARD

Charter of this college, of 1447

Foundation of Margaret of Anjou

Views and motives of the foundress

Andrew Doket

Statutes given by Elizabeth Woodville at the petition of

Regulations with respect to fellowships

Studies prescribed

Lectureships terminable at the expiration of three years

Study of the civil or canon law simply permitted.

Character of Andrew Doket.

FOUNDATION OF ST. CATHERINE'S HALL, A. D. 1475

Robert Woodlark.

His energetic character

Forbids the study of either the civil or the canon law at
the hall.

The foundation designed for the benefit of the secular clergy

Evident desire of founders at this period to check the

prevalent exclusive devotion to the study of the civil

and canon law

FOUNDATION OF JESUS COLLEGE, A. D. 1497.

ib.

ib.

The nunnery of St. Rhadegund .

ib.

The nunnery under the protection of the bishops of Ely

Its corrupt state and final dissolution at the close of the

ib.

fifteenth century

ib.

John Alcock, bishop of Ely

Early statutes of Jesus College given by bishops Stanley

and West

Study of the canon law forbidden

Despondency in the tone of promoters of learning at this.
period.

FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Different benefactors to the library

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Early catalogues of the libraries of Peterhouse, Trinity
Hall, Pembroke, Queens', and St. Catherine's

Illustration of mediæval additions to learning afforded by

these catalogues

Evidence afforded with respect to the theological studies
of the time

Hugo of St. Victor, Hugo of St. Cher, and Nicholas de Lyra

Absence of the Arabian commentators on Aristotle
Fewer works than we should expect on logic and contro-

versial theology

The Fathers very imperfectly represented

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ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

Results of monastic industry not to be confounded with reasons

for the original selection of monastic sites

Instance from Matthew Paris

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The Fen Country as described by the chroniclers

Change in the monastic practice in the selection of new sites

The change shewn to be at variance with their professed

theory.

Poggio Bracciolini and the Fratres Observantiæ

The medieval theory that on which Poggio insisted

Sounder views held only by a few

The theory not without an element of truth

The university originally only a GRAMMAR SCHOOL

ib.

The Magister Glomeria

Course of study pursued by the student of grammar .

Introduction of the arts course of study at Cambridge

Intercourse between Paris and the English universities

Assistance afforded by the statute books of the university

of Paris in investigating the antiquities of the English

universities.

Inferior position of grammar students compared with that
held by students in arts

Causes which conduced to this result

The grammaticus at this time nothing more than a school-

ib.

Instruction in grammar to some extent preliminary to the

arts course

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