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5 giorni fa · Christ's College, St Andrew's Street, Cambridge, CB2 3BU, UK Phone: 01223 334900 Registered Charity Number: 1137540
17 ore fa · The text is believed to have been a source of inspiration for Milton, who attended Christ’s College, Cambridge, for seven years. But the notes show him censoring Holinshed by crossing out a lewd anecdote about the mother of William the Conqueror, Arlete, tearing her smock “from top to bottom” after being summoned to the bed of Robert I of Normandy.
5 giorni fa · Milton enrolled at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1625, presumably to be educated for the ministry. A year later he was “rusticated,” or temporarily expelled, for a period of time because of a conflict with one of his tutors, the logician William Chappell. He was later reinstated under another tutor, Nathaniel Tovey.
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- John Milton (1608–74) is considered the most significant English writer after William Shakespeare. His epic Paradise Lost, classical tragedy Samson...
- When he was 11, John Milton entered St. Paul’s School, London, where he excelled in Greek, Latin, and Italian. He composed Latin verse and translat...
- When John Milton’s Paradise Lost appeared in 1667, only people close to him commended it. By the early 1700s, however, John Dryden had written an o...
17 ore fa · Share this: Setting the scene for their flourishing stage careers, Christ’s College students Charlie Wood and Cole Moffatt have secured their first leading roles for The Court Theatre. The exuberant pair will share the role of the dashing young royal, Prince Eric, in The Little Mermaid Jr. production during the July school holidays in ...
3 giorni fa · He transferred to Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1828, where his mentors mostly endorsed the idea of providential design. A botany professor suggested he join a voyage on the HMS Beagle —a trip that would provide him with much of his evidence for the theory of evolution by natural selection .
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the foundation upon which modern evolutionary theory is built. The theory was outlined...
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution had three main components: that variation occurred randomly among members of a species; that an individual’s t...
- Growing up, Charles Darwin was always attracted to the sciences. In 1825 his father sent him to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. Ther...
- Charles Darwin was born in England to a well-to-do family in 1809. His father was a doctor, and his mother—who died when he was only eight years ol...
- Charles Darwin’s theories hugely impacted scientific thought. But his ideas also affected the realms of politics, economics, and literature. More i...
4 giorni fa · The tone of social life long retained many traces of the 18th century. The fascinating series of Christ's College wine books lets in a shaft of light on a college combination room in the early part of the period. The fellows were fined for breaking glasses and for being late for hall. They now and then presented bottles of port for a celebration.
5 giorni fa · He played a considerable part in drawing up the Christ's College statutes, though these were less original than Mullinger believed since their most interesting sections, establishing the office of college lecturer and ordering the study of the poets and orators of antiquity, were derived from the Godshouse statutes, and ultimately from the days of William Bingham, the founder of Godshouse ...
