Introduction / Lucy R. Nicholas
Academic Freedom on trial in Tudor times : Stephen Gardiner (1483-1555), letter to John Cheke, 15 May 1542
Why Turod Cambridge needs Greek : Richard Croke (1489-1558), Orationes duae
A professor in Scottish politics : Andrew Melville (1545-1622), Stephaniskion
A distinct mode of pastoral in Elizabethan Cambridge : Giles Fletcher the Elder (c.1546-1611, Ecloga Daphnis
Greek and Latin poetry from Cambridge on sixteenth-century questions of faith : Act and Tripos verses from the 1580s and the 1590s
Happy New Year in Jacobean Oxford : metamorphosing Ovid into student comedy : Philip Parsons (1594-1653), Atalanta
European networks and the reformation of the University of Edinburgh : astronomical disputations from the graduating class of 1612-1616 : Lecturer : William King
A prevaricator speech from Caroline Cambridge : James Duport (1606-1679), Aurum potest produci per artem chymicam
An Irish panegyric on Henry Cromwell : Caesar Williamson (c.1611-1675), Panegyris in excellentissimum dominum, dominum Henricum Cromwellum
Herrings, linen and cheese : celebrating the Treaty of Westminster in 1654 : the Musarum Oxoniensium elaiophoria (Oxford) and the Oliva pacis (Cambridge)
Political poetry from late Stuart Cambridge : Cambridge poems on the Peace of 1697.