ABSTRACT
THE history of education in later medieval England has attracted few historians. This is especially true of the training at pre-university, or grammar school level. The few studies devoted to this subject have concen trated on a later period, such as the influence of the Renaissance on Eton Col lege or the refounding of St Paul’s School by John Colet. But the nature of the school programme as it was found up and down the country before the advent of humanism has remaind relatively unknown.
