John Maddicott took his BA from Worcester College, Oxford, in 1964 and was elected to a Fellowship and Tutorship in Modern History at Exeter College in 1969, a position which he held until his retirement in 2005. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996 and gave the Ford Lectures at Oxford in 2004, subsequently published in 2010. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of South Carolina in 1982. Maddicott has written extensively on Anglo-Saxon history and on English social and political history, mainly of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

This is a history of a quintessentially 'college man' written by another 'college man' of the same college, and as such is a clever, insightful, inside job.

• Part 1. Events, 1578-1624 1: Climbing the Ladder, 1578-1612 2: Halcyon Years, 1612-1624 Part 2. Topics 3: Rector Prideaux and his College 4: The Rebuilding of Exeter College 5: Prideaux's Circle 6: Prideaux the Scholar Part 3. Events, 1624-1650 7: The Decline of the Calvinist Cause, 1624-1630 8: Rector Prideaux and Chancellor Laud, 1630-1636 9: From Laud's Apogee to Laud's Decline, 1636-1640 10: Prideaux Redivivus and the Road to Civil War, 1640-1642 11: In Office and in Retirement, 1642-50 12: John Prideaux: Life and Afterlife

John Maddicott took his BA from Worcester College, Oxford, in 1964 and was elected to a Fellowship and Tutorship in Modern History at Exeter College in 1969, a position which he held until his retirement in 2005. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996 and gave the Ford Lectures at Oxford in 2004, subsequently published in 2010. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of South Carolina in 1982. Maddicott has written extensively on Anglo-Saxon history and on English social and political history, mainly of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

This is a history of a quintessentially 'college man' written by another 'college man' of the same college, and as such is a clever, insightful, inside job.

• Part 1. Events, 1578-1624 1: Climbing the Ladder, 1578-1612 2: Halcyon Years, 1612-1624 Part 2. Topics 3: Rector Prideaux and his College 4: The Rebuilding of Exeter College 5: Prideaux's Circle 6: Prideaux the Scholar Part 3. Events, 1624-1650 7: The Decline of the Calvinist Cause, 1624-1630 8: Rector Prideaux and Chancellor Laud, 1630-1636 9: From Laud's Apogee to Laud's Decline, 1636-1640 10: Prideaux Redivivus and the Road to Civil War, 1640-1642 11: In Office and in Retirement, 1642-50 12: John Prideaux: Life and Afterlife

John Maddicott took his BA from Worcester College, Oxford, in 1964 and was elected to a Fellowship and Tutorship in Modern History at Exeter College in 1969, a position which he held until his retirement in 2005. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996 and gave the Ford Lectures at Oxford in 2004, subsequently published in 2010. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of South Carolina in 1982. Maddicott has written extensively on Anglo-Saxon history and on English social and political history, mainly of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

This is a history of a quintessentially 'college man' written by another 'college man' of the same college, and as such is a clever, insightful, inside job.

• Part 1. Events, 1578-1624 1: Climbing the Ladder, 1578-1612 2: Halcyon Years, 1612-1624 Part 2. Topics 3: Rector Prideaux and his College 4: The Rebuilding of Exeter College 5: Prideaux's Circle 6: Prideaux the Scholar Part 3. Events, 1624-1650 7: The Decline of the Calvinist Cause, 1624-1630 8: Rector Prideaux and Chancellor Laud, 1630-1636 9: From Laud's Apogee to Laud's Decline, 1636-1640 10: Prideaux Redivivus and the Road to Civil War, 1640-1642 11: In Office and in Retirement, 1642-50 12: John Prideaux: Life and Afterlife