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Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More's Daughter

Season 1
The revolutionary intellect of one woman in Tudor era England helped change the country's cultural life forever. Historian Helen Castor reveals how the life and education of Margaret More, daughter of Henry VIII's Chancellor Thomas More, transformed the power of knowledge. Educated to a high level, Margaret embodied the spirit of the age, which embraced humanism and the English Renaissance.
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  1. S1 E1 - Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More's Daughter
    August 10, 2011
    59min
    7+
    The revolutionary intellect of one woman in Tudor era England helped change the country's cultural life forever. Historian Helen Castor reveals how the life and education of Margaret More, daughter of Henry VIII's Chancellor Thomas More, transformed the power of knowledge. Educated to a high level, Margaret embodied the spirit of the age, which embraced humanism and the English Renaissance.
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Producers
Helen ThomasFiona Cushley
Studio
BBC
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