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angevin2

[NPM] today's poem

Apr 18, 2013 18:41

Wenest thu, uscher
Anon. English, 14th c.Wenest thu, uscher, with thy cointise ( Read more... )

national poetry month 2013, poetry: middle english, poetry: 14th century, poetry

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eglantine_br April 19 2013, 01:23:34 UTC

Poor boys, i would want revenge too! In my reading about Kyd and Marlowe I am amazed how beating was just assumed to be part of school

There were even beatings at Cambridge!

Still, i think boys got loose and had fun too. Maybe it was easier to accept because it happened to everyone?

angevin2 April 19 2013, 02:01:48 UTC

IIRC, beatings weren't officially banned at Eton until the 1980s! But yeah, certainly in the medieval/early modern period corporal punishment was assumed to be a routine part of education.

OTOH early modern college sounds really fun, in a hardass sort of way, so yeah.

eglantine_br April 19 2013, 12:43:45 UTC

I imagine that Kit Marlowe would have been an entertaining roommate!

angevin2 April 21 2013, 21:29:24 UTC

I dunno, I think Thomas Kyd might disagree with you there... ;)