Athenae Cantabrigienses
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Cambridge
ISBN-10
1108000371
ISBN-13
9781108000376
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 20th, 2009
Print length
584 Pages
Weight
748 grams
Dimensions
13.70 x 21.70 x 3.80 cms
Product Classification:
British & Irish historyEuropean history
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The monumental Athenae Cantabrigienses is a collection of biographies of distinguished historical figures with connections to Cambridge University. It was compiled by a noted local historian, and financed by private subscriptions. Volume 2, originally published in 1861, covers the period 1586–1609.
The Athenae Cantabrigienses was the most ambitious of several large writing projects undertaken by Charles Henry Cooper, a keen historian, successful lawyer and town clerk of Cambridge in the mid-nineteenth century. He enlisted the help of his elder son, Thompson Cooper, for this book, a collection of carefully researched biographies of distinguished figures with Cambridge connections, inspired by Anthony Wood's Athenae Oxonienses (1692). Two volumes were published during Cooper Senior's lifetime, but only 60 pages of the third volume (ending in 1611) appeared in print, and he died leaving an enormous quantity of notes. Even in its incomplete state, the work contains about seven thousand biographies; their subjects include clergymen, military commanders, judges, artists, scholars and benefactors of the University. Volume 2, originally published in 1861, covers the period 1586–1609.
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