Lady Margaret Beaufort and Her Professors of Divinity at Cambridge (Paperback)

Regius Professor of Modern History Emeritus University of Cambridge and Fellow Patrick Collinson; Richard Rex; Professor of New Testament Studies Graham Stanton
Cambridge University Press
9780521533102
0-521-53310-4

Three leading scholars examine one of the oldest professorships, the Lady Margaret's Chair of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. Graham Stanton, current holder, writes an introduction considering.

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theology at Cambridge before 1502 and after 1649. In two subsequent chapters (delivered as lectures at an event in March 2002 to celebrate the five-hundredth anniversary of the Chair), Richard Rex offers an account of the establishment of the Professorship in 1502 and Patrick Collinson addresses the extent to which early incumbents were involved in the religious and political turmoil of the era.