Queens' College
Riverside college of medieval brick courts and the wooden Mathematical Bridge spanning the Cam.
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This guide to Queens' College in Cambridge follows Erasmus, the Dutch scholar who lodged here in the early fifteen-hundreds, through his running battle with English cold, English beer and a shortage of wine. It draws on his letters to a friend in London and to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and on the college heads and lodgers who came looking for him centuries later. Best heard in Old Court, looking up toward the top-floor rooms near the screens passage.
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