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Title

St John's College, Cambridge : a history / edited by Peter Linehan.

Publication

Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Linehan, Peter.

Description

xix, 757 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

Within a generation of its foundation on the site of a decayed hospital at the behest of Lady Margaret Beaufort, England's queen mother, the College of St John the Evangelist had established itself as one of the kingdom's foremost educational establishments: in the words of one notable contemporary, as 'an university within it selfe' indeed. And in the period thereafter - the years between 1511 and 1989, the period covered by the present volume - St John's has continued to provide its fair share of Prime Ministers and other politicians, bishops, Nobel laureates, artists, writers, and sporting heroes, as well as to irrigate the rich loam of the nation's history in all sorts of other unexpected ways and places. However, not until the organisation of the College's archives and records in the present generation has it been possible to describe in sufficient detail the full story of that progress and adequately to trace the College's development and achievements in recent centuries. The present history, the first since the early 1700s to provide a systematic and informed account of the subject, seeks to make good this historical defect. It is published as part of the celebration of the quincentenary of the College's foundation.

Subjects

• History
• St John's College (University of Cambridge) historia
• St. John's College (University of Cambridge)
• St. John's College (University of Cambridge) History
• Universitet > historia > Storbritannien

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 695-722) and indexes.

Contents

• I. The Sixteenth Century / Richard Rex -- FISHER'S COLLEGE -- 1. The Kings Mother -- 2. Origins and Obstacles -- 3. Construction and Consolidation -- 4. Lectures and Languages -- 5. Tutors, Preachers and Plays -- 6. Nicholas Metcalfe and the Problems of Governance -- ST JOHN'S COLLEGE AND THE CRISIS OF THE REFORMATION -- 1. The Impact of the `Break with Rome' -- 2. The Fall of Metcalfe -- 3. John Taylor and the Evangelical Turn -- 4. The Triumph of Renaissance Humanism -- 5. St John's under the `Young Josiah' -- 6. The Restoration of Roman Catholicism -- WILLIAM CECIL'S COLLEGE -- 1. The Elizabethan Settlement -- 2. The First Stirrings of Faction -- 3. William Fulke and the Vestments Controversy -- 4. The Rise of the `Pensioners' -- 5. Tyrants and Rebels -- 6. William Whitaker and the Puritan College -- 7. Richard Clayton and Second Court -- II. The Seventeenth Century / Mark Nicholls -- 1. Estates -- 2. Buildings and Benefactors: The Fabric of the College -- 3. Masters, Fellows and Careers -- 4. Teaching and Courses -- 5. Staff -- 6. College Life -- 7. Worlds Turned Upside Down -- 8. The Golden Age of St John's -- III. The Eighteenth Century / Derek Beaks -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Arch-Tory College, to 1727 -- 3. Transition, 1727 -- 65 -- 4. The Mastership of William Powell, 1765 -- 75 -- 5. New Issues and New Prosperity, 1775 -- 1800 -- 6. Conclusion -- IV. The Nineteenth Century / Boyd Hilton -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Prosperity and Expansion, 1800 -- 30 -- 3. Under Siege: Political and Economic Pressures, 1830 -- 47 -- 4.` The Lowest, Most Childish, Piggish, Punning Place -- 5. `Halcyon Days': Estate and Household Reform in the Age of Bateson, 1846 -- 81 -- 6. Academic Reform and the Battle for the Statutes -- 7. The Creation of a Collegiate Ethos, 1850 -- 1900 -- 8. From Clergymen to Dons? -- 9. `A Battle-Field for Conflicting Opinions': Chapel Wars, College Woes -- 10. Poverty and Contraction, 1881 -- 1900.
• V. The Twentieth Century / Peter Linehan -- Introduction (Peter Hennessy) -- A NEW CENTURY -- 1. Signs of the Times -- 2.S cott in the Lodge -- 3. The Edwardian College -- 4. EAB -- 5. War -- 6. Reconstruction -- 1918-33 -- 1. Mr Glover and his Diaries -- 2. The Post-bellum College: Three Fellows -- 3. Two Undergraduates -- 4. The Domestic Scene -- 5. A New Dispensation? -- 6. The New Statutes (with Peter Hennessy) -- 7. A Change of Key -- 8. A Master `Seen in the Distance' -- 1933-52 -- 1. Benians -- 2. New Buildings and Old Habits -- 3. Four Fat Years -- 4. The Second World War: Men and Boys -- 1952-69 -- 1. The Mastership of Wordie -- 2. The Choir School and New Bui/ding -- 3. JSBS: The Masters' Master -- 4. Shifting Foundations -- 5. The Same, Continued -- 6. How Strange the Change -- THE MODERN COLLEGE -- 1. 'The Age of Brother Chair -- 2. Co-Residence and Carefulness: The Hinsley Years -- Epilogue -- APPENDICES -- 1. The Social, Intellectual and Professional Arithmetic of the College, 1900 -- 1989 (Peter Hennessy) -- 2. Recruitment, 1904 -- 2009 (Peter Linehan) -- 3. Cambridge University and St John's College Tripos Performance by Decade, 1899 -- 2009 (Stephanie Rucker-Andrews) -- 4. Johnian Dynasties, 1900 -- 99 (Peter Linehan) -- 5. Schools Feeding the College: Individuals and Institutions (Peter Linehan) -- 6 .`The Finances of St John's College during the Twentieth Century (Edmund Rogers).

ISBN

• 9781843836087
• 1843836084

LCCN

2011389417

OCLC

• ocn641506578
• 641506578
• SCSB-1593888

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library