History of Universities

Volume XXXII / 1-2: Renaissance College: Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in Context, 1450-1600

Edited by Mordechai Feingold and John Watts

History of Universities Series

An indispensable tool for the historian of higher education`
A lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material

History of Universities

Volume XXXII / 1-2: Renaissance College: Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in Context, 1450-1600

Edited by Mordechai Feingold and John Watts

History of Universities Series

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.

History of Universities

Volume XXXII / 1-2: Renaissance College: Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in Context, 1450-1600

Edited by Mordechai Feingold and John Watts

History of Universities Series

Introduction, John Watts
1:Towards the Courtier: the University Formation of Public Servants, Jeremy Catto
2:Fox's Choice: Founding a Secular College in Oxford, Clive Burgess
3:Church, State, and Corpus: the Founder's Years, Paul Cavill
4:Patronage, Performativity, and Ideas of Corpus Christi, Pamela King
5:Corpus Christi College, Oxford as an Emotional Community, Miri Rubin
6:Corpus Before Erasmus, or the English Humanist Tradition and Greek Before the Trojans, David Rundle
7:Corpus Christi College's 'Trilingual Library': a Historical Assessment, Joanna Weinberg
8:Making Do? Musical Participation in Early Tudor Education, Gavin Williamson
9:Building Corpus Christi, William Whyte
10:Living in a Sixteenth-Century College, Julian Reid
11:Corpus Christi College, the City and the Court in the Reign of Henry VIII, Susan Brigden
12:Corpus Christi College and the Early Reformation, Richard Rex
13:Pensioners, Prisoners and Pupils: Corpus Christi College's Charity in Tudor Oxford, Lucy Kaufman
14:Corpus Christi, Catholics, and the Elizabethan Reformation, Alexandra Gajda
15:Brian Twyne: University History and the Traditions of English Antiquarianism, Tony Grafton
Closing Remarks I, Felicity Heal
Closing Remarks II, Diarmaid MacCulloch
Closing Remarks III, Mordechai Feingold

History of Universities

Volume XXXII / 1-2: Renaissance College: Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in Context, 1450-1600

Edited by Mordechai Feingold and John Watts

History of Universities Series

Author Information

Edited by Mordechai Feingold, Professor of History, California Institute of Technology, and John Watts, Professor of Later Medieval History, Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Contributors:

John Watts
Jeremy Catto
Clive Burgess
Paul Cavill
Pamela King
Miri Rubin
David Rundle
Joanna Weinberg
Gavin Williamson
William Whyte
Julian Reid
Susan Brigden
Richard Rex
Lucy Kaufman
Alexandra Gajda
Tony Grafton
Felicity Heal
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Mordechai Feingold