The University of Cambridge: From the earliest times to the royal injunctions of 1535, Volume 1

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University Press, 1873

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Contents

Illustration afforded in the foregoing codes of the different
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THE SENTENCES OF PETER LOMBARD
60
A Lydgates verses on the Foundation of the University
65
Events of the year 1516 558
71
THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
72
Jealousy of Rome
82
Testimony of Grosseteste to the good effects of their activity
85
Fullers view of the matter
90
Causes that favored monastic corruption
91
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
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THE COLLEGES OF PARIS
126
RISE OF THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES
132
Authority of the chancellor
142
His translation of Aristotles Ethics
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Foundation of Merton College A D 1264
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DUNS SCOTUS
169
WILLIAM OF OCCAM
187
THOMAS BRADWARDINE
198
CAMBRIDGE PRIOR TO THE CLASSICAL
213
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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
B The University of Stamford
246
The intellectual supremacy of Paris passes over to Oxford
249
Influence of the court at Avignon upon the university
255
The Fifteenth Century
258
HUGH BALSHAM
264
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
Significance of Cardinal Beauforts bequest
310
FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
323
Subserviency of the new orders to papal extortion
325
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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
Incepting for others
358
Course of study in the faculty of the civil
364
SPORTS AND PASTIMES
373
CAMBRIDGE AT THE REVIVAL OF CLASSICAL LEARNING
379
His position in relation to Aristotle compared with that
386
BESSARION
396
Duke Humphreys bequests to Oxford
399
His patriotic zeal
403
LEARNING IN GERMANY
409
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Causes of this difference
421
Change in the theological tendencies of the Cambridge
426
635
474
The Greek fathers begin to be better known
483
Impulsiveness of Erasmuss character
489
respecting the Novum Instrumentum
494
No record of any collision on his part with the Cambridge
495
Alarm raised by archbishop Lee on the appearance of Tyndales
496
Fishers claims to be regarded as a reformer
497
OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF THE INTRODUCTION OF GREEK INTO
501
St Hilary
502
of failure
508
Bryan lectures in the schools from the new versions of Aristotle
518
RICHARD CROKE
527
JOHN SKELTON
540
pleasure
549
The Reformation in England began at Cambridge
555
Hopes of the Humanists
559
the nation
565
GEORGE STAFFORD
567
King Henry and Fisher write against Luther
572
His second examination which is similarly interrupted
578
Sir Thomas More elected high steward
585
Erasmus writes De Libero Arbitrio against Luther
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Tyndale and Tunstal
596
The aid thus rendered to Oxford not superfluous
602
THE ROYAL DIVORCE
612
His career on the continent
649
Bishop Lupus of Ferrières
651
Rapid degeneracy of the friars
652
The orders of St Dominic and St Francis dAssisi
653
Feeling of the university
654
The outcome of his work in England and of English patronage
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18
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253
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440
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427
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151
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Gerbert
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84
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217
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428
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258
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RUDOLPHUS AGRICOLA
670
Norman influences prior and subsequent to the Conquest
671
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Death of Grosseteste
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The Humanists and the religious orders
677
Savignys view of the original formation of the older universities
678
Signal gain of the university
681
FOUNDATION OF JESUS COLLEGE A D 1497
682
Attitude of the universities with respect to the new learning
683
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