... Naturalis Philosophiae Newton sinecurism teaching in Oxford Balliol College Oxford Buckland William early lives and careers Leigh Cassandra Leigh Theophilus Magdalen College Oxford Algebra Wood Austen Jane Corpus Christi College Oxford lectures Wood James Arnold Thomas ‘The Codger’ George...

... college and sets his plans for Corpus Christi College within the broader environment of collegiate foundation in the English Church in the decades that preceded the Reformation. Richard Fox secular college Oxford monastic college Benedictine monks Corpus Christi College collegiate foundation...

... by the Reformation. Incidents such as Bishop Fox’s change of plan at Oxford—transforming a primarily monastic ‘Winchester College‘ into the secular Corpus Christi College—became overlaid with foreshadowed significance. Ultimately, Fox’s was the last great age of bishops founding university colleges, since...

...Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, as an Emotional Community. In: History of Universities: Volume XXXII/1–2 2019. Edited by John Watts, Oxford University Press (2019). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198848523.003.0006 This chapter focuses...

... addresses Corpus Christi College’s trilingual library. By 1545, trilingualism in different forms and to greater or lesser degree had become manifest in several places in continental Europe. In England, the same trends were already visible at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where John Fisher had insisted...

... of Corpus Christi College. Richard Fox was a staggeringly wealthy individual. A mere fortnight of his earnings as the richest bishop in England was enough to buy the site of Corpus Christi. Fox was also a far from indifferent patron. Even as Corpus was being built, he was employing the very best workmen...

...Susan Brigden, Corpus Christi College, the City, and the Court in the Reign of Henry VIII. In: History of Universities: Volume XXXII/1–2 2019. Edited by John Watts, Oxford University Press (2019). © Oxford University Press.DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198848523.003.0012...

... presidents of Corpus Christi College, John Claymond and Robert Morwent, speculating on what might have been their most worrying moments. For Claymond, it is the death of Richard Fox in 1528, which brought the greatest predator of the decade into an uncomfortably intimate relationship with the College...

...This chapter presents biographical information on Keith Thomas. Thomas was born in 1933, the elder son of a Welsh tenant farmer with 250 acres of land. Despite his rural background, Thomas was knighted, became head of the Corpus Christi College of Oxford University, president of the British Academy...

... and contemplative literacies promoted in monastic libraries. This reading program continues to be reflected in the contents of post-Reformation libraries such as the Royal Library (now a core collection of the British Library) and the library of Matthew Parker, which was donated to Corpus Christi College...

... interesting, coming as it did at a time of lively activity and national prominence for the board. Bliss Nathaniel Corpus Christi College Oxford Hornsby Thomas Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Royal Society transit of Venus Venus transit Ashmolean Museum Bird John astronomical instrument maker...

.../9780198848523.003.0002 This introductory chapter provides an overview of Corpus Christi College in Oxford, founded in 1517 by Bishop Richard Fox, which occupies a particular place in the history of English universities. Corpus Christi College was a new kind of foundation, with a humanist curriculum and a distinctive...

.../9780198848523.003.0007 This chapter looks at aspects of identity and emotion in life at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, as envisaged by its founder and as experienced in its early decades. Many historians now strive to discern emotions from the past and to understand the lives of their subjects as experienced in bodies...

... in Corpus Christi College. Richard Fox’s apparently modest provision for liturgical music at Corpus is intelligible once the chapel ministers are viewed within their wider collegiate community. The musical capabilities of this mixed community can in turn be mapped onto the genres and repertoires cultivated...

... looks at the impact of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement upon institutions and the individuals who peopled them. Beginning with the protestant ‘conversion‘ of Corpus Christi College and the university in the 1560s, it shows that the micro-history of the college’s experience of reformation speaks...

... relations with the Oxford University, with his colleagues in Corpus Christi College, with Oxford University Press (OUP), and with other refugee scholars through his correspondence with these scholars in the years following 1938, and by some oral traditions still circulating in Corpus in the 1970s...

...Sir Keith Thomas is one of the most innovative and influential of English historians, and a scholar of unusual range. These essays, presented to him on his retirement as President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, concentrate on one of the broad themes illuminated by his work—changing notions...

...This chapter explores the text, authorship, and dating of the Memoriale Presbiterorum. Its five known extant manuscripts are: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS. 148; London, Westminster Diocesan Archives, MS. H. 38; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Selden Supra 39; London, British...

...Joanna Weinberg, Corpus Christi College’s ‘Trilingual Library’: A Historical Assessment. In: History of Universities: Volume XXXII/1–2 2019. Edited by John Watts, Oxford University Press (2019). © Oxford University Press.DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198848523.003.0008...

...Richard Rex, Corpus Christi College and the Early Reformation. In: History of Universities: Volume XXXII/1–2 2019. Edited by John Watts, Oxford University Press (2019). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198848523.003.0013 This chapter discusses...