Nicholas Orme

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Nicholas Orme
Occupation	Historian
Nationality	British
Subjects	Middle Ages Tudor period Ecclesiastical history,

Nicholas Orme is a British historian specialising in the Middle Ages and Tudor periods, with a particular interest in the history of children, and ecclesiastical history, in the South West of England.

Orme is an Emeritus Professor of history at Exeter University. He earned his degrees from 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^[1]. He retired on May 31, 2007 ^[2]

[edit] Selected works

(1973) English Schools in the Middle Ages, Routledge, ISBN 0416160808
(1976) Education in the West of England, 1066-1548, University of Exeter Press, ISBN 0859890414
(1980) The Minor Clergy of Exeter Cathedral:1300-1548: a list of the minor officers, vicars choral, annuellars, secondaries and choristers.ISBN 0859891755
(1983) Early British Swimming, 55 B.C.-1719 A.D: with the first swimming treatise in English, 1595. ISBN 0859891348
(1984) From Childhood to Chivalry: Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy, Routledge, ISBN 0416748309
(1987) Exeter Cathedral as It Was, 1050-1550, Devon Books ISBN 0861147855
(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, ISBN 1852850035
(1989) Table Manners for Children, by John Lydgate ; with translation and introduction by Nicholas Orme ISBN 0907596177
(1991) Unity and Variety: A History of the Church in Devon and Cornwall ISBN 0859893553
(1992) Nicholas Roscarrock's Lives of the Saints ISBN 0901853356
(1996) English Church Dedications: With a Survey of Cornwall and Devon, University of Exeter Press ISBN 0859895165
(2000) The Saints of Cornwall, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198207654
(2001) Medieval Children, Yale University Press ISBN 0300085419
(2006) Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Tudor England, Yale University Press, ISBN 0300111029
(2006) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article by Nicholas Orme on the theme ‘School founders and patrons in England, 597–1560’, ODNB online edn, [1] accessed 23 May 2007]
(2007) The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall: Religious History to 1559 v. 2, ISBN 1904356125^[3]

[edit] Collaborations

with David Lepine: (2003) Death and Memory in Medieval Exeter, Devon & Cornwall Record Society, ISBN 0901853461
with Margaret Webster: (1995) The English Hospital, 1070-1570, Yale University Press, ISBN 0300060580

For a more extensive list of Professor Orme's publications, see School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Exeter Website and the University Library Catalogue