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biofreak659 ([personal profile] biofreak659) wrote in [community profile] little_details2025-03-14 02:43 pm

Medieval Royal Tutors

Hello all! I am looking for any good overviews of medieval tutors of either royalty or nobility. England and France (and other Normanish places) are preferable, but any information is useful at this point. I'm particularly interested in the qualifications of tutors, and some politics involved in their appointment. Teaching schedules would also be useful. Thanks!
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[personal profile] dsrtao 2025-03-14 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
So... that's a thousand year period covering about two hundred countries at various times. England gets conquered by the Danes and the Normans. France doesn't have a single language in common.

Can you pick a particular century and area? You'll get more useful information.

E.g. "Paris around 1100CE" or "Charlemagne's court and a generation or three later" can help focus.
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[personal profile] kitarella_imagines 2025-03-15 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Also the official/noble language of England was French after the Norman Conquest of 1066 for about 300 years, because all the monarchs and court officials were French (i.e. they got rid of the original English court, I expect they killed them.)

Hope this is helpful.
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[personal profile] dsrtao 2025-03-15 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
So you want something like Amy McElroy's _Educating the Tudors_ but earlier?