Scholae Academicae: Some Account of the Studies at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century - Softcover

Wordsworth, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 131442159X ISBN 13: 9781314421590

Publisher: HardPress Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

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About this title

Book Description:

In this book, published in 1877, Christopher Wordsworth, the great-nephew of the poet, describes the state and the syllabuses of the English universities in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, before the reforms following the 1852 Royal Commission.

About the Author:

Christopher Wordsworth (1807-85), the "Great Christopher" of Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, was a nephew of William the poet, and brother to Charles, the student who launched the University Boat Race. In 1832, Christopher took a gap-year, after his brilliant studies in ancient Greek and Latin classics, to travel back in time over two thousand years to Pericles' Athens. The account of his tour, Athens and Attica (1836), is still the perfect scholarly companion to the history, topography, and myths of an area compact in dimension yet vast in terms of its contribution to Western civilization.

About this edition

• Publisher: HardPress Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 131442159X
• ISBN 13: 9781314421590
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 458