O chyldren! Geue eare your duties to learne: The education of upper-class Englishwomen in late medieval and early modern England
"The hereditary aristocracy of England used education to maintain its cultural, political, and economic superiority of men and women in the hierarchy of society. Aristocratic education was training for leadership of the group and the skills taught were those that the group defined as signifying a leader. Part of aristocratic education was also based around play and conspicuous consumption. The sentiments of the twentieth-century slogans, ""if you've got it, flaunt it,"" and ""let the good times roll"" would not have seemed foreign to a fifteenth-century English aristocrat. These principles were adopted by those who moved into the upper classes of society."
Women's Studies, Education, History of, History, Medieval
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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