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Nicholas Orme
The first history of childhood in Tudor England
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The first history of all the English cathedrals, from Birmingham and Bury St Edmunds to Worcester and York Minster
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In 1857 Everard Digby published the first scientific treatise on swimming - and one of the first on any modern sport. Nicholas Orme rehabilitates Digby as a pioneer of the…
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Forgotten after the Reformation, churches were revived on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with many guesses and mistakes, resulting in numerous alterations. Part One surveys their history in England from…
In Fleas, Flies, and Friars, Nicholas Orme has gathered a wide variety of children’s verse that circulated in England beginning in the 1400s, providing a way for modern readers of…
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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…
England’s sixty or so Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals are among its most iconic buildings and attract thousands of worshippers and visitors every year. Yet though much has been written…
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First survey of the religious history of Cornwall, from the county’s Romano-British origins to the sixteenth century.
Exeter Cathedral is rich in its medieval archives, which record not only its buildings but also its personnel from the thirteenth century onwards. This volume lists the names of about…
Acester (known as Ayster) is one of England's oldest cathedrals. It is also home to a startling assortment of ghosts. They include a bishop's skeleton, a mischievous imp, a Jacobean…
Cornwall is more Celtic than English in its religious history. Its churches, chapels, and place-names commemorate not only the major saints of Christendom, but also many minor Celtic ones, unique…
What was childhood like for mediaeval boys and girls in England? Nicholas Orme draws on a vast range of sources to create a picture of childhood in the Middle Ages.
Children have gone to school in England since Roman times. By the end of the middle ages, there were hundreds of schools, supporting a highly literate society. This book traces…
An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century
Nicholas Orme,Margaret Webster
The first English hospitals appeared soon after the Norman Conquest. By the year 1300 they numbered over 500, caring for the sick at every level of society. This text traces…
Professor of History Nicholas Orme (University of Exeter)
Death, burial, and the commemoration of the dead have been much studied by historians in recent years, but far less has been done to make available the sources on which…
Nicholas J Orme
In this book we will strive to meet nine goals: First we will define life. What characteristics does an organism have to posses to be alive? Then we will look…
The Survey of Cornwall by Richard Carew, published in 1603, is the first and classic description of Cornwall, The first of two parts describes its landscape, mining, agriculture, fishing, communications…
A collaborative history of the Church in a large, diverse and interesting region of England by six historians, ranging from Celtic and Saxon times, through the middle ages, Reformation, rise…
