A Portrait of Gonville & Caius College

Résumé du livre

"This book celebrates two anniversaries in the long history of Gonville Caius College, Cambridge. Publication comes 660 years after the first foundation by Edmund Gonville in 1348 and 450 years after the second foundation by John Caius in 1558." "Buildings alone do not make a College, no matter how beautiful they may be; and yet they provide vital support for this powerful intellectual community that reviews itself year after year. Caius is a living continuum of study, contemplation, enquiry and expression stretching in an unbroken line all the way back to the Middle Ages." "Every new student who walks through the Gate of Humility recognises with a sense of wonder the inspiring tradition of scholarship and fellowship. Each newcomer is the most recent beneficiary and guardian of a heritage that measures its life not in years but in centuries."--BOOK JACKET.