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D. W. Sylvester.
History of educational Documents 800-1816.
Published London: Methuen & Co., 1970.
SBN 416137202.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK by Butler & Tanner.
Size: 158x240x24mm.
Page count: xi,290pp inc. a few monochrome text figures.
Main languages: English; some of the older texts given in original spelling.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is a little ragged at the edges; at least 5 pages have some pencilled sidelining in the margins; a gift inscription in ink inside the front board.

This item £10.00
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Weight without packaging: 679g.

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Presents a generous anthology of extracts organised under the following headings: Anglo-Saxon schools; The liberal arts curriculum; Medieval grammar schools; Song schools; Corporal punishment in the 15th-c.; Education of knights; Education in nunneries; Education of girls; Education of craftsmen; Medieval universities; Legal education in the 15th-c. — the petty school; Dissolution of the chantries; Tudor & Stuart grammar schools; The Elizabethan Church & education; Education of the gentry; Universities in the 16th-c.; The Puritan revolution & education; The Clarendon Code; Charity schools; An endowed grammar school in the 18th-c. — Oundle; Public schools in the 18th-c.; Universities in the 18th-c.; The grand tour; Dissenting academies; Private schools; Sunday schools; Monitorial systems of Bell & Lancaster.

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