Nicholas Orme
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Nicholas Orme FSA[1] FRHistS[2] (born 1942) is a British historian specialising in the Middle Ages and Tudor period, focusing on the history of children, and ecclesiastical history, with a particular interest in South West England.
Orme is an 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.[3] He retired on 31 May 2007[4] and is a canon of the Church of England.[5]
His 2021 book, Going to Church in Medieval England, was shortlisted for the 2022 Wolfson History Prize.[6]
Orme was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1973 and of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1982.[7]
In addition to his scholarly works, Orme has published Ten Cathedral Ghosts (2022), a volume of historically themed ghost stories in the tradition of M. R. James and A. N. L. Munby.
Selected works
- (1973) English Schools in the Middle Ages, Routledge, Template:ISBN
- (1976) Education in the West of England, 1066–1548, University of Exeter Press, Template:ISBN
- (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 Template:ISBN
- (1983) Early British Swimming, 55 B.C.–1719 A.D: with the first swimming treatise in English, 1595. University of Exeter Press Template:ISBN
- (1984) From Childhood to Chivalry: Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy, Routledge, Template:ISBN
- (1987) Exeter Cathedral as It Was, 1050–1550, Devon Books Template:ISBN
- (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, Template:ISBN
- (1989) Table Manners for Children, by John Lydgate; with translation and introduction by Nicholas Orme Template:ISBN
- (1991) Unity and Variety: a History of the Church in Devon and Cornwall Template:ISBN
- (1996) English Church Dedications: With a Survey of Cornwall and Devon, University of Exeter Press Template:ISBN
- (2000) The Saints of Cornwall, Oxford University Press, Template:ISBN
- (2001) Medieval Children, New Haven: Yale University Press Template:ISBN
- (2006) Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Tudor England, New Haven: Yale University Press, Template:ISBN
- (2006) School founders and patrons in England, 597–1560[8]
- (2007) Cornish Wills, 1342–1540. Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Template:ISBN
- (2007) Cornwall and the Cross. Chichester: Phillimore
- (2007) The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall: Religious History to 1559 v. 2, Template:ISBN[9]
- (2009) Exeter Cathedral: The First Thousand Years, c. 400–1550, Impress Books, Template:ISBN.
- (2014) The Churches of Medieval Exeter, Impress Books, Template:ISBN.
- (2021) Going to Church in Medieval England, Yale University Press, Template:ISBN
- (2023) Tudor Children, Yale University Press, Template:ISBN
Works as editor or collaborator
- Nicholas Roscarrock's Lives of the Saints (1992); Template:ISBN
- With Margaret Webster: (1995) The English Hospital, 1070–1570, Yale University Press; Template:ISBN
- With David Lepine: (2003) Death and Memory in Medieval Exeter, Devon & Cornwall Record Society; Template:ISBN
For a more extensive list of Orme's publications, see School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Exeter Website and the 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
- Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
- Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- Date of birth missing (living people)