Nicholas Orme

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Nicholas Orme (born 1942) is a British historian specialising in the Middle Ages and Tudor period, focusing on the history of children, and ecclesiastical history, with a particular interest in South West England.

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Orme is an Emeritus Professor of History at Exeter University. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and has worked as a visiting scholar at, among others, Merton College, Oxford, St John's College, Oxford, and the University of Arizona. [1] He retired on 31 May 2007. [2] and is a canon of the Church of England. [3]

His 2021 book, Going to Church in Medieval England, was shortlisted for the 2022 Wolfson History Prize. [4]

Selected works

Works as editor or collaborator

For a more extensive list of Professor Orme's publications, see School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Exeter Website and the University Library Catalogue

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References

  1. "Guest information". Mars Hill Audio website. Archived from the original on 4 August 2007.
  2. "HuSS Intranet". intranet.exeter.ac.uk.
  3. Orme, Nicholas (28 May 2008). "The truth about chapels in churches". Church Times. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  4. "£50k Wolfson History Prize shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 22 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  5. Online edn retrieved 2007-05-23.
  6. "Boydell & Brewer Publishers". boydellandbrewer.com.
  7. "DCRS: Nicholas Roscarrock's 'Lives of the Saints': Cornwall and Devon". genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk.