Lady Margaret Beaufort and her Professors of Divinity at Cambridge
1502 to 1649

An account of the Lady Margaret's Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge.

Patrick Collinson (Author), Richard Rex (Author), Graham Stanton (Author)

9780521533102, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 21 August 2003

104 pages, 1 b/w illus.
18.7 x 12.4 x 0.9 cm, 0.119 kg

"All in all this little book offers an agreeable read, and the revision of the list of the early professors is both valuable and striking." Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Cambridge University Library

Three leading scholars examine one of the oldest professorships, the Lady Margaret's Chair of Divinity at Cambridge, plotting its development in the context of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history. The current Lady Margaret's Professor Graham Stanton sets the scene with an introduction briefly considering theology at Cambridge before 1502 and after 1649. In the two main chapters (delivered as lectures in March 2002 to celebrate the five-hundredth anniversary of the Chair) Richard Rex - an authority on John Fisher, first holder of the Chair - deploys new evidence to propose changes in the list of early professors (including the removal of Erasmus's name) and shows how their appointment and dismissal reflected the vagaries of the Reformation; and Patrick Collinson investigates how the Elizabethan and early Stuart professors continued to be caught up in the religious and political turmoil of the times. There is a complete list of holders from 1502 to the present.

Frontispiece
1. Introduction Graham Stanton
2. Lady Margaret Beaufort and her Professorship: 1502 to 1559 Richard Rex
3. Some Lady Margaret's Professors from 1559 to 1649 Patrick Collinson
4. Appendix.

Subject Areas: Christian theology [HRCM], Philosophy [HP]