This paper examines the uses to which Cambridge University’s ten-year statute was put suggesting that its increasing popularity from c.1815 reflects both increasing career insecurity among non-graduate clergy, and the closing of traditional non-graduate routes into the Anglican ministry. Using a quantitative study of university calendars and ordination records alongside a review of controversial pamphlet literature it documents the degree’s changing popularity and the appearance of a discourse which discredited both it and non-graduate clergy. This discourse also reflects the general anxieties of elite and middling families, threatened by meritocratic trends and eager to secure cultural, occupational and economic privilege.

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野心、焦虑和渴望：剑桥大学十年神学法规的使用和滥用

本文研究了剑桥大学十年法规的用途，表明它从 1815 年开始越来越受欢迎，这反映了非毕业生神职人员日益增加的职业不安全感，以及传统的非毕业生进入圣公会事工之路的关闭。使用对大学日历和圣职记录的定量研究以及对有争议的小册子文献的审查，它记录了该学位不断变化的受欢迎程度以及一种使该学位和非研究生神职人员名誉扫地的话语的出现。这种话语也反映了精英和中等家庭的普遍焦虑，他们受到精英主义趋势的威胁，渴望获得文化、职业和经济特权。