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The University of Cambridge has long been heralded as the nursery of the English Reformation: a precociously evangelical and then puritan Tudor institution. Spanning fifty years and four reigns and based on extensive archival research, this book reveals a much more nuanced experience of religious change. Instead of Protestant triumph, there were multiple, contested responses to royal religious policy across the sixteenth century. The University's importance as both a symbol and an agent of religious change meant that successive regimes and politicians worked hard to stamp their visions of religious uniformity onto it. It was also equipped with some of England's most talented theologians and preachers. Yet in the maze of the collegiate structure, the conformity they sought proved frustratingly elusive. The religious struggles which this book traces reveal not only the persistence of real doctrinal conflict in Cambridge throughout the Reformation period, but also more complex patterns of accommodation, conformity and resistance shaped by social, political and institutional context.

Reformation --- University of Cambridge --- Academia Cantabrigiensis --- Cambridge. University --- Cambridge University --- Chien-chʻiao ta hsüeh --- Jianqiao da xue --- Kambrija Yeke Surġaġuli --- Kembridzhiĭn Ikh Surguulʹ --- Universität Cambridge --- Ying-kuo Chien-chʻiao ta hsüeh --- Кембриджийн Их Сургууль --- 剑桥大学 --- Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge --- History --- Great Britain --- Church history --- Cambridge (England) --- Protestant Reformation --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) --- Jianqiao (England) --- Conformity. --- Doctrinal conflict. --- Ecclesiastical context. --- Institutional context. --- Political. --- Reformations. --- Religious policy. --- Religious struggles. --- Tudor institution. --- University of Cambridge.