Full Description
This issue of History of Universities, Volume XXXII / 1-2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Guest edited by Professor John Watts, this volume focuses on the history of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Corpus Christi College, Oxford was founded in 1517 to advance humanistic learning in the service of God. This collection of essays by some of the leading historians of late medieval and early modern England takes the early history of the College as a starting point to explore the intellectual, social, religious, political, and cultural trends of the era of Renaissance and Reformation. Ranging from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth, and taking in the study of Greek and Hebrew; the practices of antiquarianism, charity, and divine worship; the experience of music, punishment, and the built environment; the networks that connected the college to London and the government; and the interactions of scholars with royal policy on religion, these fifteen essays and three commentaries aim to expose the multiple perspectives from which an early modern college can be viewed and understood. The relationship between 'Renaissance' and 'Reformation', and the social and cultural realities that accompanied these familiar concepts, form one central theme in the papers; the relationship between religious or educational institutions and the state form another. Corpus Christi itself emerges as less innovative than its historic reputation as the first collegium trilingue might suggest, but it becomes the gateway to a richer appreciation of the overlapping worlds of learning, religion and public life in a time of rapid change.
Contents
John Watts: Introduction
1: Jeremy Catto: Towards the Courtier: the University Formation of Public Servants
2: Clive Burgess: Fox's Choice: Founding a Secular College in Oxford
3: Paul Cavill: Church, State, and Corpus: the Founder's Years
4: Pamela King: Patronage, Performativity, and Ideas of Corpus Christi
5: Miri Rubin: Corpus Christi College, Oxford as an Emotional Community
6: David Rundle: Corpus Before Erasmus, or the English Humanist Tradition and Greek Before the Trojans
7: Joanna Weinberg: Corpus Christi College's 'Trilingual Library': a Historical Assessment
8: Gavin Williamson: Making Do? Musical Participation in Early Tudor Education
9: William Whyte: Building Corpus Christi
10: Julian Reid: Living in a Sixteenth-Century College
11: Susan Brigden: Corpus Christi College, the City and the Court in the Reign of Henry VIII
12: Richard Rex: Corpus Christi College and the Early Reformation
13: Lucy Kaufman: Pensioners, Prisoners and Pupils: Corpus Christi College's Charity in Tudor Oxford
14: Alexandra Gajda: Corpus Christi, Catholics, and the Elizabethan Reformation
15: Tony Grafton: Brian Twyne: University History and the Traditions of English Antiquarianism
Felicity Heal: Closing Remarks I
Diarmaid MacCulloch: Closing Remarks II
Mordechai Feingold: Closing Remarks III
