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."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Michalove, Sharon Deborah

Contributors dc:contributor

• Violas, Paul C.

• Women's Studies
• Education, History of
• History, Medieval

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1996 Michalove, Sharon Deborah

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

9780591198379
AAI9712380
(UMI)AAI9712380

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23191