Table of Contents:
“…Paul's school ; Colleges at Cambridge and Oxford ; Developments up to 1530 -- Erasmus and Vives on education : The classics and education for the good life ; The psychology and philosophy of education -- Education and the state :The example of Germany ; Wolsey, the universities and the royal supremacy ; Some proposals for reform -- The reformation in England, 1536-53 : The progress of the Henrician reformation -- Schools at the dissolution of the monasteries -- The re-orientation of university learning -- Policies under Edward VI -- The chantries act of 1547 and its outcome -- University reform 1549-53 -- The legacy of the Edwardian reformation -- The place of education in the Elizabethan age : Education and social change -- The Elizabethan settlement and the schools : The ordering and establishment of schools ; The content of education -- The institution of the gentleman : The nobility, household education and foreign travel ; Inns of court, universities and grammar schools -- The triumph of the vernacular : The common country schools ; The third university of England ; Humanism and puritanism.…”