| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Cambridge: a Famous City -- A World-Class University -- From Market Town to High-Tech City -- Historic Buildings and Landscapes -- Cambridge and the Fens -- 1 Prehistoric Cam Valley -- Iron Age Tribes and Hilltops -- A Village on Castle Hill -- Wandlebury Hillfort -- 2 Invaders and Settlers -- The Roman Invaders -- Why Build a Military Camp in Cambridge? -- Cambridge Becomes a Walled Town -- A Life of Luxury in Arbury Villa -- The First Anglo-Saxon Settlers -- Settlers in the Cam Valley -- Timber and Thatch |
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Cambridge: 'a Little Ruined City' -- From Pagans to Christians -- Saxon and Viking Town -- Cambridge under King Offa -- The Town Spreads South -- Viking Raiders and Traders -- Late Saxon Cambridge -- The Norman Conquest -- The Normans Seize Control -- The Isle of Ely -- New Churches and Monasteries -- 3 Medieval Cambridge -- River Trade and Fairs -- The River Port: Ships and Hythes -- The Medieval Market -- Medieval Fairs -- Stourbridge: the Largest Fair in Europe -- The Power of the Church -- A Great Age of Church-Building -- Spiritual Healing -- The Religious Guilds and Corpus Christi |
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Monks and Nuns: a Life of Seclusion -- The Friars: Great Preachers and Teachers -- A New Power: the University -- The First Scholars Arrive -- A Thirst for Knowledge -- The Early Student Hostels -- The First Cambridge Colleges -- Who Gave the Money for the Colleges? -- Kings, Queens and Colleges -- King's College: a Royal Masterpiece -- King's and Queens': Contrasting Colleges -- Queens': a Medieval College -- The First Purpose-Built College -- Two Founding Queens -- 4 Tudor Cambridge -- A New Dynasty -- Transforming the University -- King's College Chapel: Tudor Glory |
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Henry VIII and Royal Cambridge -- Luther and the First Protestants -- 'Little Germany' and the First Protestant Martyrs -- The King's Desire for an Heir -- The Axe Falls on the Monasteries -- Colleges in Danger -- Tudor Power and Wealth -- Catholics and Protestants -- Edward VI's Reign: Sweeping Protestant Changes -- Mary I and Catholic Cambridge -- Queen Elizabeth and the Protestant Peace -- Elizabethan Cambridge -- A Royal Guest at Cambridge -- A Flood of Gentlemen -- Scholars and their Pastimes -- A Golden Age of Theatre and Poetry -- Puritan Cambridge -- Catholics and Priest Holes |
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5 The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Cambridge in the Civil War -- Puritan Town, Royalist Gown -- Cambridge Becomes a Puritan Stronghold -- Puritan Purges -- Classical Cambridge -- A New Style of Buildings -- New Courts, Chapels and Libraries -- Landscaping the Backs -- A Romantic Landscape -- Science, Medicine and Witchcraft -- A New Approach to Science and Medicine -- The Plague Rages -- A Clean Water Supply for the Town -- Barges, Bridges and Stagecoaches -- Navigating the Cam -- Stand and Deliver! -- 6 Victorian and Edwardian Edwardian Cambridge -- Boom Town -- Disappearing Fields |
| Summary |
"This book tells the history of the thriving market town of Cambridge and its university which arrived in the 13th century. It looks at the two communities--town and gown--which have existed side by side for centuries and are closely connected. This history is written in clear language and fully illustrated so that it is accessible to residents, school students, college and university students, tourists, and those with English as a Second Language"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
University of Cambridge -- History
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| SUBJECT |
University of Cambridge fast |
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Cambridge (England) -- History
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| Subject |
England -- Cambridge
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139981712 |
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1139981714 |
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9781009337892 |
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1009337890 |
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