Medieval Aspects of Renaissance Learning: Three Essays

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middle classes quite successfully" (p.167), or the possibility that the "influx of gentleman- commoners may indeed have worked to the disadvantage of the poor" (p.176), the evidence shows how Tudor gentry came to use the university for a wide variety of purposes, and how in return the university acquired "a vast national constituency."The ties between the university and its constituency in "the country" are brought under scrutiny in Victor Morgan's essay, which contains a plethora of material illustrating the strength and variety of the connections between Cambridge University and the area it served in the period 1560-1640.So convincing is the cumulative effect that a re-assessment of the relationship between university and society will have to be made, and it is difficult to disagree with the plea made in the conclusion that we need to change our way of working, namely "to give 'Society' a local habitation and a name."The standard of production of the whole work is first-class, marred only by the sloppy maps (strangely, historians still do not seek sufficient aid from geographers).Combined with the flawless scholarship, this excellence makes the work a joy to read and to possess.Yet the final effect-and this is a criticism of the state of educational history and not the volumes under reviewis the feeling that so much remains to be done.

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