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Há 1 dia · Archbishop Walter de Merton founded Merton College, Oxford and three different popes – Gregory IX, Nicholas IV, and John XXII – gave Cambridge the legal protection and status to compete with other European medieval universities. Augustinians also had a significant presence at Oxford.
Há 8 horas · Oxford 7 day weather forecast including weather warnings, temperature, rain, wind, visibility, humidity and UV
Há 3 dias · Other estates. Although some freehold estates were created before 1279 (fn. 45) most were small and the manorial estate was not much reduced until the 17th century. In 1609 Corpus Christi College, Oxford, bought an estate in Eynsham attached to houses in Thames Street, later the Elms on the Oxford road. The estate had been formed from several ...
Há 3 dias · Books chained to the lecterns in the Malatestiana Library, Cesena, Italy Merton College Library, Oxford, England, established in 1373. In the Early Middle Ages, monastery libraries developed, such as the important one at the Abbey of Montecassino in Italy.
Há 4 dias · In Church and State the college was preeminent. John Buckeridge, who was elected President in 1606, had come to the college in 1578 as of founder's kin. The fellows of founder's kin were for the most part of less ability than the other fellows, as might be expected, but Buckeridge was an exception.
Há 3 dias · Nicholas Wadham, the founder of this college, was born in 1532 of a good Somerset family of Merifield, near Ilminster, and was educated at Oxford, at either Corpus Christi or Christ Church. (fn. 1) In 1555 he married Dorothy, daughter of Sir William Petre of Writtle, Essex, and in 1578 succeeded his father.
Há 1 dia · 19th-century view of the High Street in Oxford. The history of Oxford in England dates back to its original settlement in the Saxon period.Originally of strategic significance due to its controlling location on the upper reaches of the River Thames at its confluence with the River Cherwell, the town grew in national importance during the early Norman period, and in the late 12th century became ...
