Nicholas Orme

Nicholas OrmeFSA^[1]FRHistS^[2] (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.

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.^[3] He retired on 31 May 2007^[4] and is a canon of the Church of England.^[5]

His 2021 book, Going to Church in Medieval England, was shortlisted for the 2022 Wolfson History Prize.^[6]

Orme was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1973 and of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1982.^[7]

In addition to his scholarly works, Orme has published Ten Cathedral Ghosts (2022), a volume of historically themed ghost stories in the tradition of M. R. James and A. N. L. Munby.

• (1973) English Schools in the Middle Ages, Routledge, ISBN 0-416-16080-8
• (1976) Education in the West of England, 1066–1548, University of Exeter Press, ISBN 0-85989-041-4
• (1980) The Minor Clergy of Exeter Cathedral: 1300–1548 – a list of the minor officers, vicars choral, annuellars, secondaries and choristers. University of Exeter Press ISBN 0-85989-175-5
• (1983) Early British Swimming, 55 B.C.–1719 A.D: with the first swimming treatise in English, 1595. University of Exeter Press ISBN 0-85989-134-8
• (1984) De la infancia a la caballería: la educación de los reyes y la aristocracia inglesa , Routledge, ISBN 0-416-74830-9
• (1987) La catedral de Exeter tal como era, 1050–1550 , Devon Books ISBN 0-86114-785-5
• (1988) La educación en la Inglaterra de principios del período Tudor: Magdalen College Oxford y su escuela, 1480–1540 , Magdalen College
• (1989) Educación y sociedad en la Inglaterra medieval y renacentista , Hambledon Continuum, ISBN 1-85285-003-5
• (1989) Modales en la mesa para niños, por John Lydgate ; con traducción e introducción de Nicholas Orme ISBN 0-907596-17-7
• (1991) Unidad y variedad: una historia de la Iglesia en Devon y Cornualles ISBN 0-85989-355-3
• (1996) Dedicaciones de iglesias inglesas: con un estudio de Cornualles y Devon , University of Exeter Press ISBN 0-85989-516-5
• (2000) Los santos de Cornualles , Oxford University Press , ISBN 0-19-820765-4
• (2001) Niños medievales , New Haven: Yale University Press ISBN 0-300-08541-9
• (2006) Escuelas medievales: De la Britania romana a la Inglaterra Tudor , New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-11102-9
• (2006) Fundadores y mecenas de escuelas en Inglaterra, 597–1560 ^{[ 8 ]}
• (2007) Testamentos de Cornualles, 1342–1540 . Devon and Cornwall Record Society, ISBN 9780901853509
• (2007) Cornualles y la Cruz . Chichester: Phillimore
• (2007) Historia victoriana del condado de Cornualles: Historia religiosa hasta 1559, vol. 2 , ISBN 1-904356-12-5^{[ 9 ]}
• (2009) Catedral de Exeter: Los primeros mil años, c. 400–1550 , Impress Books, ISBN 978-0-9556239-8-1.
• (2014) Las iglesias de Exeter medieval , Impress Books, ISBN 9781907605512.
• (2021) Ir a la iglesia en la Inglaterra medieval , Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0300256505
• (2023) Los hijos de los Tudor , Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0300267969