TY - BOOK ID - 78142149 TI - The grammar schools of medieval England PY - 1990 SN - 0773561528 9780773561526 0773506349 9780773506343 PB - Kingston, Ont. McGill-Queen's University Press DB - UniCat KW - Education, Medieval KW - Endowed public schools (Great Britain) KW - Endowed schools (Great Britain) KW - Public schools (Great Britain) KW - Public schools, Endowed (Great Britain) KW - Private schools KW - Education KW - Medieval education KW - Seven liberal arts KW - Civilization, Medieval KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Historiography. KW - History KW - Leach, Arthur Francis, KW - Leach, A. F. KW - Education, Medieval - England - Historiography. KW - Endowed public schools (Great Britain) - Historiography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78142149 AB - Leach struggled to rid his countrymen of the persistent myth that the monks had been the schoolmasters of the pre-Reformation period in England. To accomplish his goal he embarked on a program of research and publication, based on a mass of hitherto unexplored documents, to establish the great antiquity of many of the nation's Latin schools and to show that they derived from clerical, but secular, colleges of Anglo-Saxon times. Showing this would, he hoped, eliminate the persistant belief that monks had been the school-masters of pre-Reformation England. Miner argues that previous readings of Leach, which suggest that his main concern is to take issue with the Reformation and argue that this great watershed in history was - at least with regard to education - a retrograde step rather than a great movement forward, have not taken into account the full range of his publications. The aim of the present study is thus to place both Leach's achievements and his more controversial theses in historical context. A separate chapter devoted to unpublished material from the Charity Commission reveals Leach's method of work and provides an analytic survey of opinions on his work by reviewers and historians. The author supplements Leach's lack of material on the school curriculum through descriptive analysis of grammatical manuscripts from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, showing the presence of an educational Christendom of which Leach was clearly unaware. ER -