Preface
1. From the Romans to the Vikings
2. The Middle Ages, 1066-1500
3. The Sixteenth Century
4. Everard Digby and his 'Art of Swimming'
5. Digby's Successors and the Seventeenth Century
6. A Short Introduction for to Learn to Swim, translated by
Christopher Middleton from Digby's De Arte Natandi
Bibliography
Index
Nicholas Orme is Professor of History at the
University of Exeter. His previous works included English Schools
in the Middle ages (Methuen, 1973) and Education in the West of
England (University of Exeter, 1976), and other books and articles
on religion and education during the Middle Ages and
Renaissance.
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