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The hidden hornbook: a handy educational tool from the Middle-Ages

by Ken Gibb

https://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/the-hidden-hornbook-a-handy-educational-tool-from-the-middle-ages/

Books about Education in middle ages at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=education+%2B+middle+ages

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Woodcut from “Hornbye’s Hornbook” (1622) in which a schoolboy points out letters on a hornbook to his tutor. Resting on the desk is a birching rod which would be used to discipline a lazy student! (From Tuer’s “History of the Horn-Book”, 1897).

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