The Orignal Statutes of Cambridge University The Text and its History [Paperback]

Dr Hackett discovered in the Angelica Library in Rome a manuscript containing a unique text of the first constitution of Cambridge University.Dr Hackett discovered in the Angelica Library in Rome a manuscript containing a unique text of the first constitution of Cambridge University. The centrepiece of this book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation on facing pages. The importance of his discovery for historians of Cambridge and of medieval university education cannot be overestimated.Dr Hackett discovered in the Angelica Library in Rome a manuscript containing a unique text of the first constitution of Cambridge University. The centrepiece of this book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation on facing pages. The importance of his discovery for historians of Cambridge and of medieval university education cannot be overestimated.Dr Hackett discovered in the Angelica Library in Rome a manuscript containing a unique text of the first constitution of Cambridge University. The centrepiece of this book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation on facing pages. The importance of his discovery for historians of Cambridge and of medieval university education cannot be overestimated. The Cambridge constitutions form a complete code, promulgated at a remarkably early date (c. 1250). Dr Hackett shows that Oxford lagged more than 50 years behind Cambridge in codifying its statutes and neither Paris nor Bologna, the oldest of all universities, had a written constitution or code of laws at this time.Part I. Origin and Nature of the Text: 1. Angelica MS 401; 2. The Date of the Text (c. 123654); 3. The Origin of the Cambridge Statutes; 4. The Formation of the Constitution; 5. Analysis of the Text; Part II. The Text: 6. Prolegomena; 7. Latin Text with English Translation; Part III. History of the Text: 8. The Growth of the Text (c. 12501300); 9. The Markaunt Recension (c. 130437); 10. The Old Proctor-Caius RedactionlóÊ