A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More's Daughter
Film about Thomas More's daughter Margaret, showing her revolutionary intellectual spirit and how the ideas that shaped her education changed the cultural life of England forever.
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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Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Helen Castor |
Producer | Fiona Cushley |
Series Producer | Mary Sackville-West |
Executive Producer | Helen Thomas |
Broadcasts
- Thu 11 Aug 2011 21:00
- Thu 11 Aug 2011 22:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ HD
- Fri 12 Aug 2011 03:30
- Mon 15 Aug 2011 23:30
- Tue 13 Sep 2011 20:00
- Thu 5 Jan 2012 22:00
- Fri 6 Jan 2012 02:00
- Sat 7 Jan 2012 00:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ HD
- Thu 1 Nov 2012 22:50
- Tue 13 Oct 2015 00:00
- Fri 18 Nov 2016 02:00
- Mon 18 Feb 2019 00:30