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Book SynopsisAn important new perspective on this critical intellectual and religious community, and on the conflicted nature of religious change at the time.
Trade ReviewA welcome entry in the historiography of the English reformation, a solid addition to studies of the way communities engaged religious change in the sixteenth century, and it certainly expands the history of Cambridge more broadly. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *
Ceri Law's Contested Reformations is an example of careful, deliberate, ancl original scholarship. * ANGLICAN AND EPISCOPAL REVIEW *
[A] stimulating book. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *
Presents fresh and lively accounts of the life of the university over...five decades. * BRITISH CATHOLIC HISTORY *
[A]dds a great deal to our knowledge of the English Reformation and the workings of Tudor Cambridge. * Catholic Historical Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction The cradle of reformation? Cambridge, 1535-1547 'Lightes to shine': evangelical reform in Edwardian Cambridge Restoration and reaction in the reign of Mary I Re-establishing the Protestant university, 1558-1564 Patronage, control and religious order, 1564-1584 Conservatism and Catholicism in Elizabethan Cambridge The process of religious change Conclusion Appendix 1. Departures of college Fellows, 1546-1575 Appendix 2. Former members of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford as identified in Anstruther, Seminary priests Bibliography
