Nicholas Orme is a specialist in the Middle Ages and Tudor period and a Emeritus Professor of History at Exeter University. 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 University of Arizona.
Books in order of publication:
English Schools in the Middle Ages, Routledge – (1973)
Education in the West of England, 1066–1548, University of Exeter Press, (1976)
The Minor Clergy of Exeter Cathedral: 1300–1548 – a list of the minor officers, vicars choral, annuellars, secondaries and choristers. University of Exeter Press – (1980)
Early British Swimming, 55 B.C.–1719 A.D: with the first swimming treatise in English, 1595. University of Exeter Press – (1983)
From Childhood to Chivalry: Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy, Routledge – (1984)
Exeter Cathedral as It Was, 1050–1550, Devon Books – (1987)
Education in Early Tudor England: Magdalen College Oxford and Its School, 1480–1540, Magdalen College – (1988)
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 – (1989)
Unity and Variety: a History of the Church in Devon and Cornwall – (1991)
English Church Dedications: With a Survey of Cornwall and Devon, University of Exeter Press – (1996)
The Saints of Cornwall, Oxford University Press – (2000)
Medieval Children, New Haven: Yale University Press – (2001)
Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Tudor England, New Haven: Yale University Press – (2006)
School founders and patrons in England, 597–1560 – (2006)
Cornwall and the Cross. Chichester: Phillimore – (2007)
The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall: Religious History to 1559 v. 2, – (2007)
Exeter Cathedral: The First Thousand Years, c. 400–1550, Impress Books – (2009)
The Churches of Medieval Exeter, Impress Books – (2014)
Going to Church in Medieval England, Yale University Press – (2021)
Tudor Children, Yale University Press – (2023)
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