Education
Trinity College.
Trinity College.
The work was subsequently enlarged and issued (1828-1829) in four volumes entitled: Godefridus, Tancredus, Morus and Orlandus. Digby"s exposure to Walter Scott"s Ivanhoe novels as a youth encouraged him to romanticize the Middle Ages. Broad-Stone contributed to the Young England movement’s feudalist ideology and influenced many of Digby"s Cambridge contemporaries.
Digby"s revival of medieval principles helped young men of his day construct their idea of what being a "gentleman" means.
Born at Clonfert, he was 15 when his father died in 1812. He moved to England to attend Petersham High School near London.
In summer, he traveled across Europe sketching old castles and writing. Ehrenbreitstein, a massive mediaeval fortress in Germany, gave him the title The Broad-Stone of Honour.
From 1816 to 1819, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where some members of the university advocated reform and even republicanism. Digby, however, favoured a strong monarchy, the Church, and chivalry.
