The Humanities

Abstract

Abstract Historians, even those specializing in the history of higher education, have traditionally been reluctant to undertake an exhaustive study of the curriculum at Oxford and Cambridge. Far more appealing was concern with the religious and political culture at Oxford and Cambridge, its roots in the larger national setting, and the varieties of its local manifestations. It was assumed that the chief studies at both universities were logic, physics, and metaphysics, and that the authors studied in the process were principally those indigestible commentators on the works of Aristotle. But in fact the curriculum was quintessentially devoted to the humanities. Of all the factors that contributed to the misinterpretation of the curriculum the most obvious, and most detrimental, have been the university statutes.

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