Nicholas Orme is emeritus professor of history at Exeter University. He has written more than thirty books on the religious and social history of England, including Medieval Children, The History of England’s Cathedrals, and Going to Church in Medieval England, which was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize.
“Tudor Children is social history at its best. . . . By connecting
with our own history as children, Orme invites us to embrace a new
way of engaging with the past.”—Joanne Paul, Times (UK)
“Tudor Children is the first general study of the subject. It is
crisp and factual and, with lots of enlivening illustration
(prints, portraiture and pages of illuminated manuscript),
beautiful to regard. . . . Mr. Orme has . . . done a yeoman’s job
here of sleuthing out the details of childhood from an epoch that
doesn’t seem to have been terribly interested in recording
them.”—Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal
“Lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced by Yale for a
non-specialist audience, it was the product of 50 years’ research,
drawing on Orme’s many earlier books.”—Ian Sansom, The
Telegraph
“As Nicholas Orme shows in this elegant and hugely enjoyable book,
once Tudor youngsters stepped out of the frame and into real life,
they could be as cheeky and inappropriate as their modern
counterparts.”—Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Times
“That sense of the ordinary seized by strangeness—or, conversely,
of strangeness punctured by recognition—captures exactly the
experience of Tudor Children. . . . Encountering his subjects feels
like time traveling in a double sense: they are versions of
ourselves five hundred years ago and yesterday. Telling their
stories takes enterprise, imagination, and tact—a capacity for
hovering on the verge of childhood, looking as closely,
sympathetically, and unsentimentally as possible without disturbing
the scene. Orme does it beautifully, and he allows us to join him
at it.”—Catherine Nicholson, New York Review of Books
“Orme paints a vivid picture of every aspect of 16th-century
children’s lives.”—Ian Sansom, The Telegraph, Summer reading
list
“Nicholas Orme’s book sets a precedent: historians overlook
children to their own loss.”—Anna Parker, Times Literary
Supplement
“I loved this book for its pin-sharp glimpses of what really went
on in the daily lives and minds of children.”—Ysenda Maxtone
Graham, Daily Mail
“The latest work by one of the most original and perceptive
historians of English life writing today. [Orme’s] earlier books on
childhood and education broke new ground and this one continues the
tradition.”—Jonathan Sumption, The Spectator
“The content [is] endlessly eye-opening . . . precise and colourful
details . . . rich and compelling study.”—David Robinson, Country
Life
“Generalities regarding Tudor children are problematic: a child’s
life chiefly depended on their status. . . . Yet Orme paints an
intriguing world in flux.”—Bess Twiston Davies, The Tablet
“This is an exceptionally compelling history book for a wide
readership . . . a much-needed introduction to childhood under the
Tudors.”—Théo Rivière, English Historical Review
“Tudor Children is that rare thing: a book that will delight
specialists and generalists in equal measure.”—Elizabeth Goldring,
Literary Review
“Orme’s is the first—and much overdue—survey of the period. His
succinct and readable style and far-reaching scope will make the
book an obvious choice for future undergraduate reading
lists.”—Gabriel Bynge, Church Times
“A captivating and visually stunning account, embellished with
beautiful illustrations that enhance the reader’s understanding of
the subject matter.”—Marc Daniel Rivera, KristiyaKnow
“An endlessly fascinating and impeccably researched exploration of
what it was like for children of all ages and backgrounds to grow
up in sixteenth century England. This brilliant book provides the
missing piece of the Tudor jigsaw.”—Tracy Borman, author of The
Private Lives of the Tudors
“Lavishly illustrated, this book is a joy to dip into or fully
read. Professor Orme draws on a wide range of written and visual
sources to give us vivid and varied descriptions of children’s
lives from their birth to early deaths or adulthood.”—Susan Doran,
author of Elizabeth I and Her Circle
“This book offers the first modern compendium, from a wide range of
primary sources and scholarly literature, of sixteenth-century
English childhood. Delightfully illustrated and written in very
readable style, the book gives a vivid sense of children’s
experience. It shows that we gain a much richer understanding of
Tudor society if we include its children.”—Glenn Richardson, author
of The Field of Cloth of Gold
“Wonderfully compelling, Nicholas Orme provides the first
comprehensive account of Tudor childhood. Tudor Children is filled
with fascinating examples from all levels of society and disproves,
once and for all, any notion that childhood did not exist in the
sixteenth century.”—Elizabeth Norton, author of The Lives of Tudor
Women
“A fascinating, detailed insight into Tudor childhood, full of
pathos. Glimpsed at play and prayer, among family and avoiding
peril, these children’s lives speak vibrantly across the years.
Orme’s extensive research brings their distant lives closer in a
rich and fulfilling study.”—Amy Licence, author of Anne Boleyn
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