Helen Castor presents ‘A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More’s Daughter.’ Broadcast on BBC4 on Thursday 11th August, you can watch it at BBCiplayer. Or it is repeated on BBC 4 on Monday 15th August at 23.30.
‘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.’
From BBC Four
The programme includes contributions from John Guy (author of ‘A Daughter’s Love: Thomas and Margaret More’). See the translation of ‘The Mirror of a Sinful Soul’ that the princess Elizabeth made for Queen Katherine Parr.
Helen Castor is the author of ‘She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth’ and ‘Blood and Roses.’
