Oxford and Cambridge
A lavishly illustrated history of Oxford and Cambridge with something on them as towns, but chiefly and primarily a history of the universities and colleges - their parallel but very different stories, compared and contrasted and the ties between their history and architecture emphasized.
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- Full title :Oxford and Cambridge / Christopher Brooke and Roger Highfield ; photographs by Wim Swaan.
Summary
A lavishly illustrated history of Oxford and Cambridge with something on them as towns, but chiefly and primarily a history of the universities and colleges - their parallel but very different stories, compared and contrasted and the ties between their history and architecture emphasized.
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- Publication Date:1988.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge [England]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1988.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxi, 367 pages : : illustrations ; : 28 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0521301394, 9780521301398
- oclc:ocm15521323
- LC Classification:LF509
- Dewey Decimal:378.425/74
Table of Contents
1. Cambridge -- 2. Oxford -- 3. The formation of the universities -- 4. The first Oxford colleges -- 5. The first Cambridge colleges -- 6. 1450-1550 : the colleges take over -- 7. 1550-1640 : Cranmer to Laud, the Anglican establishment at Cambridge and Oxford -- 8. From the age of Cromwell to the age of Newton -- 9. Oxford and Cambridge in the eighteenth century -- 10. Cambridge and Oxford 1800-1920 -- 11. Epilogue : the mid twentieth century.
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