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BBC Documentaries: Season 2011

2011x268 A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More's Daughter
TV-PG

  • 2011-08-11T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • United Kingdom
  • English
The intellectual forces at work in the Tudor era ensured it was a pivotal period for children's education. Historian Dr Helen Castor reveals how the life and education of Margaret More, daughter of Thomas More, tell a story of the transforming power of knowledge. As a child in Tudor England, and educated to an exceptionally high level, Margaret embodies the intellectual spirit of the age - an era which embraced Humanism, the birth of the Church of England and the English Renaissance. This film reveals what a revolutionary intellectual spirit Margaret More was and how the ideas that shaped her education helped change the cultural life of England forever.
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