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The Building Accounts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1517-18 (Hardcover)
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The Building Accounts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1517-18 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Society New Series
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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.
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. The introduction describes Fox's long road to
1517: his motives far more complicated than a bishop looking for
worldly fame and heavenly reward. Born into a Lincolnshire yeoman,
Fox studied law at Oxford, rebelled against Richard III and became
Henry VII's closest political adviser. Taken together,they provide
a detailed account of the foundation of the College, both literal
and metaphorical.
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