St John's College Cambridge: A History
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St John's College Cambridge: A History by Peter A Linehan
The first book to describe fully the foundations and development of St John's College Cambridge, highlighting the role its alumni have always played in the life of the nation. 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 foremosteducational 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.
A sumptuous production[...] The erudition is cumulatively overwhelming, the entertainment liberally distributed. * HISTORY *
[A] sumptuously produced book-remarkably good value for its length. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *
A fine example of the vogue for large-scale histories of Oxford and Cambridge colleges. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *
There can be no doubt that Johnians...will find the college's new history diverting reading. [...] Handsomely produced by Boydell, based on exhaustive archival research, elegantly written and replete with the kind of biographical anecdote that gives spice to any institutional history. * TLS *
[A] sumptuously produced book-remarkably good value for its length. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *
A fine example of the vogue for large-scale histories of Oxford and Cambridge colleges. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *
There can be no doubt that Johnians...will find the college's new history diverting reading. [...] Handsomely produced by Boydell, based on exhaustive archival research, elegantly written and replete with the kind of biographical anecdote that gives spice to any institutional history. * TLS *
Peter Linehan, Fellow, St John's College Cambridge; British Academy Peter Linehan has been a fellow of St John's College Cambridge since 1966, and was senior proctor at the University of Cambridge in 1976 and 1977. He has been a corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid since 1996 and a Fellow of the British Academy since 2002. He edited the
Journal of Ecclesiastical History from 1979 to 1991. Linehan is married, with three children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843836087 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843836084 |
| Title | St John's College Cambridge: A History |
| Author | Peter A Linehan |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-04-21 |
| Number of pages | 794 |
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