Research | The Wolsey Manuscripts

Introduction from the President of Magdalen College and the Dean of Christ Church

Wolsey Symposium - Academic Roundtable Discussion

The roundtable held in the Upper Library of Christ Church, Oxford on the 12th of May 2017, was organised to coincide with the launch of this website, an online platform created to encourage the study of two manuscript books commissioned by Cardinal Wolsey in his later career. Thanks to the Mirador plugin, images from the two volumes in question, Oxford, Christ Church, MS 101 and Oxford, Magdalen College, Lat.

Thomas Wolsey and the Books of Cardinal College, Oxford

Dr James Willoughby

The last great collegiate foundations of the Middle Ages were two sisterhouses established at Ipswich and Oxford by Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey (1470/1–1530), both of them ostentatiously named ‘Cardinal College’ and both raised to a level of grandeur as to make it plain that the magnificent Wolsey was intending to dwarf in scale all existing models. Cardinal College, Oxford, is the focus of this paper.

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