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

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University Press, 1873

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Contents

Events of the year 1516
71
THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
72
Testimony of Grosseteste to the good effects of their activity
85
Fullers view of the matter
90
Difficulties of the Church with respect to the new philosophy
96
Conflict between the university and the citizens in 1228
106
OUTLINE OF THE EARLY ORGANISATION OF THE ENGLISH UNI
108
433
115
THE COLLEGES OF PARIS
126
RISE OF THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES
132
Authority of the chancellor
142
His translation of Aristotles Ethics
154
Foundation of Merton College a d 1264
160
DUNS SCOTUS
169
WILLIAM OF OCCAM
187
THOMAS BRADWARDINE
198
CAMBRIDGE PRIOR TO THE CLASSICAL
213
FOUNDATION OF PETERHOUSE A D 1284
229
FOUNDATION OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE A D 1347
236
FOUNDATION OF TRINITY HALL by bishop Bateman A D 1350
242
The intellectual supremacy of Paris passes over to Oxford
249
FOUNDATION OF CLARE HALL by Elizabeth de Burgh A D 1359
250
Influence of the court at Avignon upon the university
255
CAMBRIDGE PRIOR TO THE CLASSICAL
258
Alcuins view becomes the traditional theory of the Church
265
Extravagancies of the later Lollards
273
Hubers criticism gives a just appreciation of the facts
286
REGINALD PECOCK
290
Torpor of the universities after Pecocks time
297
The college endowed with lands purchased from religious
303
FOUNDATION OF QUEENS COLLEGE A D 1448
312
FOUNDATION OF ST CATHERINES HALL A D 1475
318
FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
323
Subserviency of the new orders to papal extortion
325
Outline of the physical aspects of medieval Cambridge
329
Results of monastic industry not to be confounded with reasons
335
Course of study pursued by the student of grammar
341
Stare in quadragesima
354
The dialectical method
360
foundation
366
His position in relation to Aristotle compared with that
386
Autocracy of the master
396
His collection bequeathed to Balliol College
398
His patriotic zeal
403
LEARNING IN GERMANY
409
Hopes of the Humanists
416
Causes of this difference
421
True cause of the dislike shewn to the Greek fathers by
495
Fishers claims to be regarded as a reformer
497
John Fawne Richard Whitford and Richard Sampson
500
OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF THE INTRODUCTION OF GREEK INTO
501
The last glimpse of Erasmus at Cambridge
506
Remarkable influence it subsequently exerted
512
PAGE
520
RICHARD CROKE
527
JOHN SKELTON
540
CAMBRIDGE AT THE REFORMATION
553
He reads the New Testament of Erasmus
558
Nicholas Shaxton
564
King Henry and Fisher write against Luther
572
His second examination which is similarly interrupted
578
Sir Thomas More elected high steward
585
Reason of the dislike with which it was now regarded
588
Erasmus writes De Libero Arbitrio against Luther
589
91
592
Tyndale and Tunstal
596
The aid thus rendered to Oxford not superfluous
602
Skeltons satire of the Cambridge Reformers
608
THE ROYAL DIVORCE
612
Grace proposed to the senate
618
A Lydgates verses on the Foundation of the University
635
E Legere ordinarie extraordinarie cursorie
645
Extreme youth of the majority at the time of their
646
73
649
Bishop Lupus of Ferrières
651
Rapid degeneracy of the friars
652
403
653
The outcome of his work in England and of English patronage
655
77
656
453
657
216
658
18
659
440
661
151
663
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
665
217
667
47
669
RUDOLPHUS AGRICOLA
670
Design of the countess in connexion with the abbey of West
671
Influence of the Crusades
672
19
674
Death of Grosseteste
675
50
677
Attitude of the universities with respect to the new learning
683

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