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2 juil. 2024 · The land S. of Old Court had been acquired earlier, in 1389 and 1549, together with the lease in perpetuity of St. Thomas' Hostel in 1451. In 1662 the College redeemed a forty year lease of the last and thereafter the new Chapel was begun, to the designs of Christopher Wren, nephew of Bishop Wren.
Il y a 1 jour · In 1829 the old court of King's was purchased, and several plans were drawn up for new lecture-rooms, offices, and museums on this site, together with additional accommodation for the university library. Eventually only the north wing of the proposed quadrangle, designed by C. R. Cockerell, was built (1837–42).
Il y a 6 jours · THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. The 16th century, which was troubled by many serious dissensions between town and gown, opened with a composition between the two parties, made by three arbitrators under the auspices of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, the mother of King Henry VII (1503).
Il y a 6 jours · Cambridge became an important trading centre during the Roman and Viking ages, and there is archaeological evidence of settlement in the area as early as the Bronze Age. The first town charters were granted in the 12th century, although modern city status was not officially conferred until 1951.
Il y a 2 jours · THE CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY I 018. 2-6. The Exaltation of the Praefectus Praetorio. The Praefectus Praetorio was the most exalted civil officer in the new Empire. His duties were executive, legal, financial, of every description in fact excepting the military. His only service for the army lay in the supply of its material requirements in ...
27 juin 2024 · Cambridge remained fairly insignificant until about 1502, when a professorship of divinity was founded—the oldest in the university. In 1511 Desiderius Erasmus went to Cambridge and did much to inculcate the new learning of the Renaissance there.
28 juin 2024 · So Maximian held his court at Milan, while Diocletian gradually shifted his chief resort eastward from Sirmium to Nicomedia. There were many signs now that the seat of empire ought to be somewhere near the Bosphorus. The chief dangers had always come from the Danube and the Euphrates; and about the Bosphorus was the only point which ...
