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profile](<https://above.guide/oxford/colleges/hertford>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/oxford/colleges/exeter>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/oxford/colleges/oriel-college>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/oxford/colleges/the-queens-college>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/oxford/colleges/new-college>)\n\nII\n\nPower written in stone\n\n### Late Medieval Oxford\n\n 1400–1499\n\nRoyal ambition, chantry foundations and Perpendicular Gothic transform colleges into architectural statements at the heart of the city.\n\n 03 institutions\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/oxford/colleges/lincoln-college>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/oxford/colleges/all-souls>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/oxford/colleges/magdalen-college>)\n\nIII\n\nFaith, learning and upheaval\n\n### Tudor & Reformation\n\n 1500–1599\n\nHumanism arrives, religious 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