The Building Accounts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1517-18 Collett Barry
The Building Accounts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1517-18 Collett Barry This edition of the building accounts is put into a wider context with a study of its founder, Richard Fox.Corpus…
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The Building Accounts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1517-18 Collett Barry
This edition of the building accounts is put into a wider context with a study of its founder, Richard Fox.Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was founded in 1517 by Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester. The introduction describes Fox's long road to 1517: his motives far more complicated than a bishop looking for worldly fame and heavenly reward. He intended it to educate students in classical Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and their literature; Erasmus praised it as a scholarly achievement, and a beacon of Renaissance classical learning.The heart of this book is an edition of the original fortnightly building site accounts of 1517-1518, giving us a window onto a late-medieval building site, with its detailsof early sixteenth-century building materials, craft techniques, project management skills and working conditions, including siesta periods and sub-contracting.
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