medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Jon Cannon wrote:
> the early c13 is when Oxford started to acquire some kind of
> corporate, institutional being, rather than simply being an unusually
> large concentration of 'freelance' teachers and students. later in
> that century we see the first formal colleges being founded and built
> on land in the city centre, perhaps partly in response to the
> tensions and pressures for accomodation, but presumably excarbating
> them, too. these institutions were large and well-endowed, they took
> the model of the collegiate church but built-in an academic element:
> a novel constitutional innovation. the issues raised by such a
> process will surely have involved high local politics as well as
> simple competition for resources. that's my reading of the situation,
> anyway.
But undergraduates lived in halls, which preceded the colleges. The colleges
were originally only for graduates and teachers - New College (1379) was the
first to include undergraduates as members of the college. Others followed
suit, which led to the decline of the halls - St Edmund Hall was the last to
survive, becoming a college in 1957.
John Briggs
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