Note: The Decline of the Chancellor's Authority in Medieval Cambridge: A Rediscovered Statute

1958 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-182
Author(s):  
W. Ullmann
Keyword(s):  
Original Form ◽  
Concomitant Increase ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Point G ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Autonomous Institution ◽  
The University ◽  
Rough Outline

In accounts of the medieval constitution of the University of Cambridge insufficient attention is paid to the gradual decrease of the Chancellor's authority and the concomitant increase of powers of the regent masters. This development very clearly reflects the growing awareness of the University of itself as an autonomous institution, that is, a body with its own inherent rights and within which the supreme jurisdictional power resided. Although the premisses and presuppositions are different, this development might well show some kinship with contemporary developments elsewhere, namely in the institutional growth of Parliament and in the conciliarist form of church government. This rather important evolution of the University constitution has not yet been properly appreciated, mainly because the individual statutory enactments by which the gradual transfer of authority from the (ecclesiastical) Chancellor to the whole University took place had not been known. What was known was one Statute, through which alone the stages of the development could not, of course, be recognized. Moreover, when touching upon this point, G. Peacock and C. H. Cooper relied on a Statute which substantially differs in its wording and in its subject-matter from that printed by the Commissioners in 1852, on which J. B. Mullinger, Sir Stanley Leathes and Dean Rashdall drew. Fortunately, the Statute in its original form has been preserved as an original document in the Archives of the University of Cambridge, and it enables us to trace, at least in rough outline, this process of displacement of authority which ended in the control by the regent masters (through their proctors) over the chancellor and vice-chancellor. As far as can be established, there was no corresponding development at the University of Oxford.

Strenæ Natalitiæ

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University

This chapter looks at Strenæ Natalitiæ, a volume of poems produced by the University of Oxford to celebrate the events of the birth of the Prince of Wales in 1688. The University of Oxford's Strenæ Natalitiæ was a volume of over a hundred poems, with an obligatory introductory poem contributed by vice-chancellor Gilbert Ironside. The contibutors to Strenæ Natalitiæ were not simply a cross-section of the university's membership and poetic talent, but also of its politics. In some respects, youthful naivety might have been a cause of some of the authors' willingness to embrace the birth of James Edward, despite the anxiety felt by some of their fellow authors. Some of the verse was simple, and naïve in tone. Other verses were marked by a more mystical and prophetic tone. Ultimately, the verses in Strenæ Natalitiæ were predictable in their expressions of congratulation and celebration, though some also contained carefully muted expressions of equivocation.

The impact of publications in core public choice journals: an analysis of institution rankings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franklin G. Mixon ◽  
Kamal P. Upadhyaya
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Emory University ◽  
University Of Göttingen ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Published Research

This study examines the impact of research published in the two core public choice journals – Public Choice and the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice – during the five-year period from 2010 through 2014. Scholars representing almost 400 universities contributed impactful research to these journals over this period, allowing us to rank institutions on the basis of citations to this published research. Our work indicates that public choice scholarship emanating from non-US colleges and universities has surged, with the University of Göttingen, University of Linz, Heidelburg University, University of Oxford, University of Konstanz, Aarhus University, University of Groningen, Paderborn University, University of Minho and University of Cambridge occupying ten of the top 15 positions in our worldwide ranking. Even so, US-based institutions still maintain a lofty presence, with Georgetown University, Emory University, the University of Illinois and George Mason University each holding positions among the top five institutions worldwide.

Anthony David Nuttall 1937–2007

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Classical Education ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Essay On Man ◽  
The University

Anthony David Nuttall (1937–2007), a Fellow of the British Academy, was born on April 25, 1937, and grew up in Hereford. He attended Hereford Grammar School and then Watford Grammar School, where he received a thorough, old-fashioned classical education. Nuttall then went to Merton College in the University of Oxford, where he met his lifelong friend Stephen Medcalf. In 1962, he was appointed lecturer in English at the new University of Sussex, rising to professor ten years later, and in 1978 he became Pro-Vice-Chancellor. After twenty-two years teaching at Sussex, Nuttall applied for a fellowship at New College, Oxford. Common Sky (1974) was the book in which he emerged as a critic with a distinctive and compelling way of looking at literature. Another book, Overheard by God (1980) is about George Herbert's poetry, but its first, riveting sentence displays the brilliance of its immodesty. In New Mimesis (1983), Nuttall discusses the present state of literary theory. He also wrote Essay on Man (1984), The Alternative Trinity (1998), and The Stoic in Love (1989).

scholarly journals John Rodney Quayle. 18 November 1926 — 26 February 2006

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 331-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Anthony
Keyword(s):  
Cell Metabolism ◽  
Carbon Assimilation ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Rigorous Approach ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Early Training

J. Rodney Quayle was an outstanding microbial biochemist whose early training in pure chemistry was coupled with rigorous enzymology and experience in the relatively new techniques of using radioactive 14 C compounds in the study of metabolic pathways. These he used to investigate and elucidate the pathways of carbon assimilation during microbial growth on compounds with a single carbon atom such as methane and methanol. When he started, little was known about these organisms (methylotrophs), which, largely as a result of his own work and the work inspired by him, have formed the subject of regular international symposia over a period of more than 40 years. After a short time working in Melvin Calvin’s laboratory in California and a very fruitful period in Hans Krebs’s Unit for Research in Cell Metabolism in the University of Oxford he moved for the next 20 years to the University of Sheffield, after which he became a highly successful and popular Vice-Chancellor at the University of Bath. His rigorous approach to his subject, his generosity and inspiration made him a much revered and much loved father figure to generations of microbial biochemists.

Presidential Address

1902 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. vii-xxv
Author(s):  
G. W. Prothero
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
German History ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Of Greece

It is with no little diffidence that, in giving my first presidential address, I follow in the steps of so many distinguished predecessors—men notable in various walks of life—historians, statesmen, administrators, diplomatists. The Royal Historical Society has had the good fortune to be presided over by such men as George Grote, Lord John Russell, Lord Aberdare, and Sir M. E. Grant Duff. My immediate predecessor in this chair, Dr. Ward, whom we so unwillingly released from his presidency to fill a larger sphere of usefulness as Master of Peterhouse and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, is known to most of us here as the author of an admirable history of the English drama, the biographer of Chaucer and Wotton, the translator of Curtius's ‘History of Greece,’ and a distinguished writer on various epochs of German history. We have all of us admired the combined courtesy, dignity, and learning with which he discharged the duties of President during his too short tenure of the office but probably only Members of the Council are fully aware of the energy and enthusiasm which he threw into the task of directing the efforts of the Society. To him is chiefly due the successful initiation of a movement for the promotion of advanced historical study in this great but ill-provided capital, which has issued in the establishment, I am glad to say, of two lectureships in the higher branches of historical learning. We parted from him, as I have said, most reluctantly, but we feel confident that the qualities which so fully justified our choice here will insure him full success in the position which he now holds—the practical headship of one of our two great and ancient Universities.

scholarly journals Popular Culture in the Muslim World

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-108
Author(s):  
Dilnawaz A. Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
American People ◽  
Cultural Divide ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Economic Elites ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The University

Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo. By Boaz Shoshan. Cambridge, UK andNew York Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1993.148 pp.Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East. By Edmund Burke, III(ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993,400 pp.Living Islam: From Samarkand to Stornoway. By Akbar Ahmed. NewYork: Facts on File, Inc., 1994.224 pp.One of the many expressions of the postmodernist revolt against themodernist western establishment is said to be its popular culture. The theoreticalliterature produced across this cultural divide often characterizes itin terms of two extremes: as a supreme expression of the true aspirations ofthe heretofore underprivileged masses or as a weapon in the hands of thetraditionally powerful political, social, and economic elites. The latter useit as a tool with which to manipulate the masses for their own respectiveagendas. A constant refrain of Hitler invoking Nazi supremacy over allhumanity, as well as our own self-serving politicians doing their own thingin the name of the “intelligent and well-informed will of the American people,”are only two of many examples of this instrument’s ubiquitous use.The Multiple Uses of Popular CultureThe vast grey area between these two margins includes umpteen otherdescriptions of popular culture, such as real “texture of our environment”and “adjustive syndrome,” and Matthew Arnold’s “heedless democratization.”In addition, there are such definitions as “banality” (Elliot), “reductionof the individual to basic instincts,” “titillation of the superficial senses”(Whitman), and “an expression denied by persistent puritanism and bourgeoispower” (Marx). Leavis also joined Arnold and Elliot in resisting thepopular resistance to “authority” found in traditional culture ...

scholarly journals Researching Terrorism and Political Violence

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Jennifer Philippa Eggert
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
International Terrorism ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
The Us ◽  
The University ◽  
Discipline Differences

Professor Louise Richardson is a political scientist focusing on terrorism and political violence. She became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in January 2016, having previously served at the Universities of St. Andrews and Harvard. She has written widely on international terrorism, British foreign and defence policy, security, and international relations. Professor Richardson holds a BA in History from Trinity College Dublin, an MA in Political Science from UCLA as well as an MA and PhD in Government from Harvard University. She visited the University of Warwick in November 2017 to deliver a talk on her career and being a female leader, as part of the University’s ‘Inspiring Women’ series. In this interview, she speaks about research on terrorism and political violence; how approaches to terrorism studies differ between the US and Europe; how the discipline has changed since the 1970s; the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of terrorism and political violence; whether terrorism studies are a distinct discipline; differences between terrorism and conflict studies; and what makes a good university teacher. Photograph credit: OUImages/John Cairns

scholarly journals A day in the life of a Patent Attorney

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 38-39
Keyword(s):  
Master's Degree ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Patent Attorney ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The Us ◽  
Cellular Biochemistry ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
The University

Steve Cuss is a trainee patent attorney in Chemical and Life Sciences. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a Master's degree in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. Steve completed a PhD in Infection and Immunity at the University of Cambridge, followed by a period as a visiting researcher at the University of York. After this, he worked for the US National Institutes of Health researching cancer-targeted immunotherapeutics.

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