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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarto in illus color jacket; xix, 757 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color); 26 cm bibliographical references (pages 695-722) and indexes. Contents: I. The Sixteenth Century / Richard Rex -- FISHER'S COLLEGE -- 1. The Kings Mother -- 2. Origins and Obstacles -- 3. Construction and Consolidation -- 4. Lectures and Languages -- 5. Tutors, Preachers and Plays -- 6. Nicholas Metcalfe and the Problems of Governance -- ST JOHN'S COLLEGE AND THE CRISIS OF THE REFORMATION -- 1. The Impact of the `Break with Rome' -- 2. The Fall of Metcalfe -- 3. John Taylor and the Evangelical Turn -- 4. The Triumph of Renaissance Humanism -- 5. St John's under the `Young Josiah' -- 6. The Restoration of Roman Catholicism -- WILLIAM CECIL'S COLLEGE -- 1. The Elizabethan Settlement -- 2. The First Stirrings of Faction -- 3. William Fulke and the Vestments Controversy -- 4. The Rise of the `Pensioners' -- 5. Tyrants and Rebels -- 6. William Whitaker and the Puritan College -- 7. Richard Clayton and Second Court -- II. The Seventeenth Century / Mark Nicholls -- 1. Estates -- 2. Buildings and Benefactors: The Fabric of the College -- 3. Masters, Fellows and Careers -- 4. Teaching and Courses -- 5. Staff -- 6. College Life -- 7. Worlds Turned Upside Down -- 8. The Golden Age of St John's -- III. The Eighteenth Century / Derek Beaks -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Arch-Tory College, to 1727 -- 3. Transition, 1727 -- 65 -- 4. The Mastership of William Powell, 1765 -- 75 -- 5. New Issues and New Prosperity, 1775 -- 1800 -- 6. Conclusion -- IV. The Nineteenth Century / Boyd Hilton -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Prosperity and Expansion, 1800 -- 30 -- 3. Under Siege: Political and Economic Pressures, 1830 -- 47 -- 4.` The Lowest, Most Childish, Piggish, Punning Place -- 5. `Halcyon Days': Estate and Household Reform in the Age of Bateson, 1846 -- 81 -- 6. Academic Reform and the Battle for the Statutes -- 7. The Creation of a Collegiate Ethos, 1850 -- 1900 -- 8. From Clergymen to Dons? -- 9. `A Battle-Field for Conflicting Opinions': Chapel Wars, College Woes -- 10. Poverty and Contraction, 1881 -- 1900. V. The Twentieth Century / Peter Linehan -- Introduction (Peter Hennessy) -- A NEW CENTURY -- 1. Signs of the Times -- 2.S cott in the Lodge -- 3. The Edwardian College -- 4. EAB -- 5. War -- 6. Reconstruction -- 1918-33 -- 1. Mr Glover and his Diaries -- 2. The Post-bellum College: Three Fellows -- 3. Two Undergraduates -- 4. The Domestic Scene -- 5. A New Dispensation? -- 6. The New Statutes (with Peter Hennessy) -- 7. A Change of Key -- 8. A Master `Seen in the Distance' -- 1933-52 -- 1. Benians -- 2. New Buildings and Old Habits -- 3. Four Fat Years -- 4. The Second World War: Men and Boys -- 1952-69 -- 1. The Mastership of Wordie -- 2. The Choir School and New Bui/ding -- 3. JSBS: The Masters' Master -- 4. Shifting Foundations -- 5. The Same, Continued -- 6. How Strange the Change -- THE MODERN COLLEGE -- 1. 'The Age of Brother Chair -- 2. Co-Residence and Carefulness: The Hinsley Years -- Epilogue -- APPENDICES -- 1. The Social, Intellectual and Professional Arithmetic of the College, 1900 -- 1989 (Peter Hennessy) -- 2. Recruitment, 1904 -- 2009 (Peter Linehan) -- 3. Cambridge University and St John's College Tripos Performance by Decade, 1899 -- 2009 (Stephanie Rucker-Andrews) -- 4. Johnian Dynasties, 1900 -- 99 (Peter Linehan) -- 5. Schools Feeding the College: Individuals and Institutions (Peter Linehan) -- 6 .`The Finances of St John's College during the Twentieth Century (Edmund Rogers).// "Within a generation of its foundation on the site of a decayed hospital at the behest of Lady Margaret Beaufort, England's queen mother, the College of St John the Evangelist had established itself as one of the kingdom's foremost educational establishments: in the words of one notable contemporary, as 'an university within it selfe' indeed. And in the period thereafter - the years between 1511 and 1989, the period covered by the present volume. …

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