CHAPTER V

UNIVERSITY MEN AND NATIONAL MOVEMENTS

Men who owe nothing to a university--40 great Englishmen--Cambridge men: the scientists, the poets, the dramatists, other literary men, the philosophers, the churchmen, lawyers, and physicians, the statesmen.

National movements: King John and the barons--the peasants’ revolt--York and Lancaster--the new world--Charles and the Parliament--James II. and the University--the Declaration of Indulgence--the Nonjurors--William and Mary and Cambridge whiggery--Jacobitism and Toryism at Cambridge in the reign of Anne--George I. and Cambridge--modern political movements.

Religious movements: Lollards, the early reformers, the question of the divorce, Lutheranism at Cambridge, later reformers and the Reformation, the English bible, and service books, the Cambridge martyrs, the Puritans, the Presbyterians, the Independents, the Latitudinarians, the Deists, the evangelical movement, the Tractarian movement, anti-calvinism.

Intellectual movements: the New Learning and the age of Elizabeth--the Royal Society--the Cambridge Platonists--modern science.

Connexion of Cambridge founders and eminent men with the university--early Cambridge names--a group of great names in the xiii and xiv centuries--Cambridge men in the historical plays of Shakespeare--genealogical tables of founders--Cantabrigians from the xv century to the present day--Cambridge men who have taken no degree.....250-309