Cambridge and its story With lithographs and other illus by Herbert Railton, the lithographs being tinted by Fanny Railton . theory whichwould connect the origin of the University with the establish-ment of the Oxford Jewry. This theory, however, can hardlybe accepted.^ It is very probable indeed that the medicalschool, which we find established at Oxford and in highrepute during the twelfth century, is traceable to Jewishorigin ; and the story is no doubt true also, which tells howRoger Bacon penetrated to the older world of material researchby means of the Hebrew instruction and the Hebrew b
Cambridge and its story With lithographs and other illus by Herbert Railton, the lithographs being tinted by Fanny Railton . theory whichwould connect the origin of the University with the establish-ment of the Oxford Jewry. This theory, however, can hardlybe accepted.^ It is very probable indeed that the medicalschool, which we find established at Oxford and in highrepute during the twelfth century, is traceable to Jewishorigin ; and the story is no doubt true also, which tells howRoger Bacon penetrated to the older world of material researchby means of the Hebrew instruction and the Hebrew bookswhich he found among the Jewish rabbis of the OxfordSynagogue. It is reasonable also to suppose that the historyof Christian Aristotelianism, and of the Scholastic Theologythat was based upon it, may have been largely influenced bythe philosophers of the Synagogue. It seems, indeed, to bea well-established conclusion, that the philosophy of Aristotlewas first made known to the West through the Arabic versionsbrought from Spain by Jewish scholars and rabbis. But it 1 Cf. Neubauers Collectanea, ii. p. 277 /r-\. -Qcv/e ill /elty-CiTry L^\i ? ^ H^cw clemolijiied ;ih(1iecL CAMBRIDGE IN THE NORMAN TIME is undoubtedly in a more purely material way that, asMr, Green truly says, the Jewry most directly influencedacademic history. At Oxford, as elsewhere, the Jewbrought with him something more than the art of sciencewhich he had gathered at Cordova or Bagdad ; he broughtwith him the new power of wealth. The erection of statelycastles, of yet statelier abbeys, which followed the Conquest,the rebuilding of almost every cathedral or conventualchurch, marks the advent of the Jewish capitalist. No onecan study the earlier history of our great monastic houseswithout finding the secret of that sudden outburst ofindustrial activity to which we owe the noblest of ourMinsters in the loans of the Jew. Certainly at Cambridge, though perhaps hardly to thesame extent as at Oxford, the materi
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