The life of Thomas Linacre : Doctor of Medicine, physician to King Henry VIII; the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the college of physicians in London : with memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, more particularly of the schools from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves.

  • Johnson, John Noble, 1787-1823.
Date:
1835
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Credit: The life of Thomas Linacre : Doctor of Medicine, physician to King Henry VIII; the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the college of physicians in London : with memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, more particularly of the schools from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE LlKE'Opf for many years enjoyed a distinction, wliich influ^ enced the similar, but less celebrated institutions of Europe; and the system of study which ])re- vailed in them was almost universally derived from that, which reigned in the schools, and regulated the 1'theology of France. The dominion, which was exercised over the English clergy by King Henry II., and the exactions of heavy tributes from them, to which the Pope had also lent his sanction, added to the numbers already attracted by the fame of these schools. The French mo- narch ■ fevoured this defection of the Enghsh, by assigning a Cistertian convent for their residence, which becam^i ,a. college, to which their country- men long after regularly resorted. The opinion of the old and more sober schoolmen is not very favourable to the advantages, which accrued from this' /education, for the English are not only ac- ■qxised of sacrificing the solidity of' their own dis- ■cipline to the sophisms and triflings of France ; but ■qf; returning with the pollutions of a foreign capi- tal, as little favourable to the progress of morality, as ; their, superficial acquirements were to that of sound and useful literature. , The forms and machinery, by which this theo- logy was brought into action, and the application £>fi;them to less fashionable and momentous sub- jects, may be considered the parents of that dis- dphne, which constituted the wisdom of the middle ages amongst the inhabitants of Europe, to which,