. A history of the University of Oxford : from the earliest times to the year 1530. Robert StratfordâSupremacy of the UniversityâLaw-lessness of the Clerks -Arrogance of the FriarsâRichard Fitz-RalphâThe Great PestilenceâCanterbury CollegeâEjectment of JohnWyclifâBishop Cobhams LibraryâScottish Students at Oxford. I IE period between the temporary secession toStamford in 1334 and the outbreak of theGreat Pestilence in 1349 must be accountedone of the most prosperous in the annals of theUniversity. The number of students wasseemingly as great as ever, and the high reputation of Oxfordfor schola
. A history of the University of Oxford : from the earliest times to the year 1530. Robert StratfordâSupremacy of the UniversityâLaw-lessness of the Clerks -Arrogance of the FriarsâRichard Fitz-RalphâThe Great PestilenceâCanterbury CollegeâEjectment of JohnWyclifâBishop Cobhams LibraryâScottish Students at Oxford. I IE period between the temporary secession toStamford in 1334 and the outbreak of theGreat Pestilence in 1349 must be accountedone of the most prosperous in the annals of theUniversity. The number of students wasseemingly as great as ever, and the high reputation of Oxfordfor scholastic learning was amply maintained by WalterBurley ** the Plain Doctor, John Baconthorpthe ResoluteDoctor, and Thomas Bradwardine the Profound Doctor,who, according to the chronicler Knyghton, was famousabove all other clerks of Christendom. It is almost certainthat William Ockham the Singular Doctor, and RobertHolcot, were also educated at the chief university of theirnative land, and there is some ground for Thomas Fullers Twysdens Scrip/ores Decern^ c. I RICHARD ()/ Rl/RV. 157 boast that, even if l^ritain first received her Christianity fromRome, Italy received her school-divinity from l^ of Bury, Bishop of ]3urham, writing about the year1340, mourns over the decadence of the University of Paris,and declares that the chief logicians there were at bestimitators of their English contemporaries.^ Of all the prelates of the time, Richard of Bury was the mostenthusiastic in his devotion to learning. The tutor and after-wards the trusty adviser of Edward III., the holder of variousimportant offices in Church and State, and the generous loverof the poor, he is chiefly remarkable as a patron of kept separate collections of books in his different houses,and his bed-room was usually strewn with precious volumes.^He had about him a staff of antiquaries, scribes, book-binders,correctors, illuminators, and the like. Many of his literarytreasures
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