EDUCATING THE ARISTOCRACY IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.

From: History Today | Date: February 1, 1999| Author: Hughes, Jonathan | Copyright information

Young English men where educated in jousting, hunting, and estate management during the medieval times of the United Kingdom. Literature provided for these students consisted of the works of philosophers and historians from Rome.

Jonathan Hughes describes how the new classical-inspired education given to young members of the aristocracy in the fifteenth century laid the foundations for future English ideas of education, empire and public service

In early fifteenth-cen...

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