Corpus Christi College, Oxford
A History

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, is 500 years old in March 2017. This book is the first history of the College in over a century and covers the full chronological range from its foundation by Richard Fox in pre-Reformation Oxford to the present day. Corpus Christi was founded with self-consciously high intellectual ambitions in the Renaissance and, although it has sustained those ambitions better at some periods than at others, its intellectual pedigree has remained a constructive challenge throughout its history. Many of the great changes of English history from the sixteenth century onwards?the Reformation, the Civil War, the Glorious Revolution?have had their repercussions and sometimes their participants within the College. The book weaves the history of the College together with the strands of internal domestic history, intellectual history, and the political and religious history of England and Europe.

Thomas Charles-Edwards was Jesus Professor of Celtic and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford from 1997 until 2011, after 27 years as Fellow and Tutor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Julian Reid studied English Language and Medieval Literature at Durham University before training as an archivist at Liverpool University. Having worked previously in local authority archives, he has been the archivist of Corpus Christi and Merton Colleges, Oxford, since 2002. In 2011 he was one of the curators of the Bodleian Libraries' exhibition Manifold Greatness: the Making of the King James Bible, and was a contributing editor of the accompanying book.