1st Edition
From Childhood to Chivalry The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy 1066-1530
By Nicholas Orme
Copyright 1984
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1984, this is a study of the kings and the aristocracy who ruled England between the Conquest and the Reformation. Not, as usual, about their adult lives, but how they became the people they were through childhood and education. The first such study of its kind, it follows noble boys and girls from birth through the care of their nurses, masters and mistresses, until they... Read more
List of Illustrations. Preface. List of Abbreviations. 1. Growing up at Home 2. Away from the Family 3. The Literature of Education 4. Language, Belief, Behaviour 5. Letters and Other Arts 6. Arms and Athletics 7. From ‘Medieval’ to ‘Renaissance’. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Nicholas Orme
