Nicholas Orme (born 1942) is a British

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

specialising in the

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and

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, focusing on the history of children, and

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, with a particular interest in

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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, and has worked as a visiting scholar at, among others, Merton College, Oxford, St John's College, Oxford, and the

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. He retired on 31 May 2007. and is a

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of the

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. His 2021 book, ''Going to Church in Medieval England'', was shortlisted for the 2022

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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'',

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, * (2001) '' Medieval Children'', New Haven:

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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 ''

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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 Website
and th
University Library Catalogue

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Orme, Nicholas 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