The History of the University of Cambridge
From the Conquest to the Year 1634

The 1840 revised edition of Fuller's 1655 History will appeal to social historians and local history enthusiasts.

Thomas Fuller (Author), Marmaduke Prickett (Edited by), Thomas Wright (Edited by)

9781108004657, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

360 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.46 kg

The historian and writer Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) published his 11-volume Church-History of Britain in 1655, together with an appendix volume, the History of the University of Cambridge Since the Conquest. A stand-alone edition of this appendix was prepared with corrections and clarifications by Marmaduke Prickett, chaplain of Trinity College and Thomas Wright, the prolific author of books on the middle ages, and appeared in 1840. This historic account is now republished, offering detailed and lively insights into the university's origins, roots and traditions. It also provides an informed commentary, sometimes biting, sometimes fantastic, on the university's complex relationship with the church, Oxford and the town authorities of Cambridge. Anyone interested in English history from William the Conqueror to Charles I, through plague, upheavals and civil war, or in the development of university education, will enjoy this classic book.

1. Editor's preface
2. The epistle
3. The history of the university of Cambridge since the Conquest
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]