Nicholas Orme (born 1942) is a British
historian
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specialising in the
Middle Ages
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and
Tudor period
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, focusing on the history of
children
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, and
ecclesiastical history
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, with a particular interest in
South West England
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.
Orme is an Emeritus Professor of History at
Exeter University
, mottoeng = "We Follow the Light"
, established = 1838 - St Luke's College1855 - Exeter School of Art1863 - Exeter School of Science 1955 - University of Exeter (received royal charter)
, type = Public
, ...
. He studied at
Magdalen College, Oxford
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, and has worked as a visiting scholar at, among others,
Merton College, Oxford
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,
St John's College, Oxford
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, and the
University of Arizona
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T ...
. He retired on 31 May 2007. and is a
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of the
Church of England
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.
His 2021 book, ''Going to Church in Medieval England'', was shortlisted for the 2022
Wolfson History Prize
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.
Selected works
* (1973) ''English Schools in the Middle Ages'', Routledge,
* (1976) ''Education in the West of England, 1066–1548'', University of Exeter Press,
* (1980) ''The Minor Clergy of Exeter Cathedral: 1300–1548 – a list of the minor officers, vicars choral, annuellars, secondaries and choristers.'' University of Exeter Press
* (1983) ''Early British Swimming, 55 B.C.–1719 A.D: with the first swimming treatise in English, 1595.'' University of Exeter Press
* (1984) ''From Childhood to Chivalry: Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy'', Routledge,
* (1987) ''Exeter Cathedral as It Was, 1050–1550'', Devon Books
* (1988) ''Education in Early Tudor England: Magdalen College Oxford and Its School, 1480–1540'', Magdalen College
* (1989) ''Education and Society in Mediaeval and Renaissance England'', Hambledon Continuum,
* (1989) ''Table Manners for Children, by John Lydgate'' ; with translation and introduction by Nicholas Orme
* (1991) ''Unity and Variety: a History of the Church in Devon and Cornwall''
* (1996) ''English Church Dedications: With a Survey of Cornwall and Devon'', University of Exeter Press
* (2000) ''The Saints of Cornwall'',
Oxford University Press
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,
* (2001) ''
Medieval Children
''Medieval Children'' is a book on the history of childhood written by English historian Nicholas Orme in 2001. It covers aspects of English children throughout the Middle Ages. The book addresses what is considered Philippe Ariès's central the ...
'', New Haven:
Yale University Press
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* (2006) ''Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Tudor England'', New Haven: Yale University Press,
* (2006)
School founders and patrons in England, 597–1560 in ''
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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''
* (2007) ''Cornwall and the Cross''. Chichester: Phillimore
* (2007) ''The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall: Religious History to 1559 v. 2'',
* (2009) ''Exeter Cathedral: The First Thousand Years, c. 400–1550'', Impress Books, .
* (2014) ''The Churches of Medieval Exeter'', Impress Books, .
* (2021) ''Going to Church in Medieval England'', Yale University Press,
Works as editor or collaborator
* ''Nicholas Roscarrock's Lives of the Saints'' (1992)
* With Margaret Webster: (1995) ''The English Hospital, 1070–1570'', Yale University Press,
* With David Lepine: (2003) ''Death and Memory in Medieval Exeter'', Devon & Cornwall Record Society,
For a more extensive list of Professor Orme's publications, ''see'
School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Exeter Websiteand th
University Library Catalogue
References
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Living people
British historians
British medievalists
Academics of the University of Exeter
Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
University of Arizona faculty
Scholars of childhood
Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
1942 births