From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy 1066-1530

ISBN-13: 9781138304192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 284 str.

Nicholas Orme

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Nicholas Orme