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4 days ago · Though the schools received benefactions from many sources amongst the clergy and the gentry in the city, they were chiefly the work of the corporation. The boys' school was intended to board and educate 40 boys who were either orphans or the sons of poor freemen, and the girls' school made much the same provision. In the first half of the ...
3 days ago · The English church was reformed according to Roman ideas: local synods were revived, celibacy of the clergy was required, and the canon law of western Europe was introduced in England.
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4 days ago · Details ecclesiastical property and the taxation of the clergy in the City of London. Also included are Acta of William Courtenay, Bishop of London. London Record Society .
2 days ago · The different interpretations that were held by the dissenters and established clergy over what the Act meant for education became openly hostile after Anne’s accession. Tory discontent with nonconformist education manifested itself in the 1714 Schism Act which, like the earlier Occasional Conformity Act, attempted to close this loophole by ...
1 day ago · The rapid expansion of education past age 14 set the U.S. apart from Europe for much of the 20th century. [82] From 1910 to 1940, high schools grew in number and size, reaching out to a broader clientele. In 1910, for example, 9% of Americans had a high school diploma; in 1935, the rate was 40%. [190]
1 day ago · Thomas argues that the secular clergy were particularly influential in the intellectual and educational spheres, as transmitters of knowledge and as the founders of schools and universities. On this basis, he proposes a new model of English participation in the 12th-century Renaissance, in which ‘England was, in some senses, on the periphery ...
5 days ago · Mounted armored warriors, or knights (from the Old English cniht, boy or servant), were the dominant forces of medieval armies. Why Was Chivalry Important in Medieval Warfare? In 1415, Henry V ordered the execution of French prisoners at the Battle of Agincourt.
