Nicholas Orme Explained
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]
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,
- (2006) School founders and patrons in England, 597–1560[8]
- (2007) Cornwall and the Cross. Chichester: Phillimore
- (2007) The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall: Religious History to 1559 v. 2, [9]
- (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,
- (2023) Tudor Children, 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 the University Library Catalogue
References
- Web site: Prof Nicholas Orme . Society of Antiquaries of London . 20 May 2024.
- Web site: List of Fellows (February 2024) . Royal Historical Society . 20 May 2024.
- Web site: Guest information. Mars Hill Audio website. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070804220055/http://www.marshillaudio.org/resources/guest_detail.asp?ID=365. 4 August 2007. dmy-all.
- Web site: HuSS Intranet. intranet.exeter.ac.uk. 29 February 2024.
- Web site: The truth about chapels in churches. Church Times. Nicholas. Orme. 28 May 2008. 13 December 2020.
- Web site: 2022-04-22 . £50k Wolfson History Prize shortlist announced . 2022-04-29 . Books+Publishing . en-AU.
- Web site: Professor Nicholas Orme . University of Exeter . 20 May 2024.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Accessed 29 February 2024.
- Web site: Boydell & Brewer Publishers. boydellandbrewer.com.
