Gonville & Caius College: The Statutes of the Founders - Hardcover

Prichard, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1783272686 ISBN 13: 9781783272686

Publisher: Boydell Press, 2017

Synopsis

Gonville & Caius College is exceptional among Oxford and Cambridge colleges in having had three separate founders at different times: Edmund Gonville, William Bateman and John Caius. The statutes made by those founders are also exceptional, for they have two unique features: first, the statutes of the last founder did not supersede those of the second founder but took effect concurrently with them for over three hundred years; and, second, the longest set of the three founders' statutes was formulated by someone - John Caius - who was not only a founder but had himself been a fellow of the college for which he was drawing up his statutes and was Master of that college during the years in which he was formulating the final draft of those statutes. As a result, Caius' statutes are remarkable for the unique detail of their provisions and their exceptional character. For both these reasons John Caius' statutes deserve greater attention than they have been given.
In addition to an edition and translation of the three founders' statutes, the book also contains an account of the circumstances in which they were formulated and the very different characters of the founders who made them. There then follows an examination of five topics on which the statutes of the last founder either led to bitter disputes and litigation during the later three centuries or else were simply ignored or tacitly evaded by common consent, particularly the hitherto neglected subjects of stipends and dividends.

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(A) monumental edition... No more complete account of the legislative history of a Cambridge college could be imagined, and Gonville & Caius is fortunate indeed to be furnished with such a volume. (It) will be an enduring and important work of scholarship, of lasting value to scholars well beyond the field of educational history. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY

About this edition

• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1783272686
• ISBN 13: 9781783272686
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 680