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G. R. Evans is Professor Emerita of Intellectual History and Medieval Theology in the University of Cambridge. She has written many well received books in the fields of history, the history of ideas and religion, and also serves as editor of the I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church series.
Preface | p. vii |
Acknowledgements | p. ix |
Abbreviations | p. x |
List of Illustrations | p. xiv |
Cambridge in living memory: the last hundred years | p. 1 |
Where is the University? | p. 1 |
Running their own show | p. 5 |
Shall we let women in? | p. 12 |
Meeting national needs: putting Cambridge in the spotlight | p. 20 |
The First World War and the spectre of state inspection again | p. 24 |
Between the Wars | p. 34 |
The Second World War and a new world for Cambridge | p. 41 |
Student revolution, eccentric dons and the Swinging Sixties | p. 46 |
The Colleges and the University rethink their relationship | p. 53 |
Could Cambridge remain in a world of its own? | p. 61 |
Cambridge discovers 'administration' | p. 62 |
Cambridge dons lose their security | p. 66 |
A business-facing Cambridge? | p. 69 |
Intellectual Property Rights and academic freedoms | p. 76 |
The capsize of CAPSA | p. 80 |
So where are we now? | p. 82 |
'Do not ask the frogs before draining the pond' | p. 83 |
How it all began | p. 87 |
Europe invents universities | p. 87 |
How it all began in Cambridge | p. 89 |
Student life: the beginning of colleges | p. 101 |
What was it like to study for a degree in medieval Cambridge? | p. 107 |
The Dunce and the dunces: Cambridge as a backwater | p. 121 |
Cambridge and the Tudor Revolution | p. 127 |
Margaret Beaufort and John Fisher turn Cambridge's fortunes round | p. 127 |
The world as Cambridge's oyster | p. 132 |
Cambridge joins the 'Renaissance' | p. 135 |
Erasmus, Luther and a 'Reformation' Cambridge | p. 141 |
The Cambridge translators | p. 151 |
Visitations: the bid for state control of Cambridge | p. 153 |
Edward VI and Cambridge | p. 159 |
Queen Mary and the martyrs | p. 163 |
Queen Elizabeth, Cambridge and protestant nationhood | p. 168 |
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge: puritans and scientists | p. 185 |
James I and Cambridge | p. 185 |
Hybrid vigour | p. 188 |
Applied science and 'useful' studies | p. 189 |
Not 'two cultures' but a single body of knowledge | p. 190 |
The Cambridge Platonists and the redrawing of the boundaries of theology | p. 191 |
Cambridge adjusts the relationship between God and nature | p. 197 |
Isaac Newton: a Cambridge character in close-up | p. 199 |
Cambridge 'networking' on the international scene | p. 210 |
Puritan rigour, Civil War and Restoration | p. 211 |
John Milton and new trends in Cambridge language study | p. 222 |
From logic to experimental science | p. 230 |
Enlightenment or marking time? | p. 240 |
Student Life | p. 244 |
The nineteenth-century transformation | p. 255 |
Students have fun | p. 255 |
The early nineteenth-century call for reform | p. 258 |
Scientific research becomes an academic activity with industrial outreach | p. 263 |
Forming the academic sciences and making them intellectually respectable | p. 267 |
The 'learned societies' adjust their standards | p. 269 |
'Call him a scientist' | p. 276 |
Must science exclude theology? | p. 282 |
Professorships and the emergence of academic specialization | p. 286 |
Teaching: should new 'useful' subjects replace the classics? | p. 291 |
Cambridge reconsiders its duty to society: the long legacy of Prince Albert's Chancellorship | p. 300 |
Applying science: Cambridge and the industrial uses of university research | p. 313 |
Widening access | p. 314 |
Entrances and exits | p. 324 |
Cambridge graduates: good men, good citizens | p. 333 |
Enter the Cambridge University Reporter | p. 335 |
Conclusion | p. 339 |
Notes | p. 341 |
Select bibliography | p. 367 |
Index | p. 375 |
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