A Moral Art : : Grammar, Society, and Culture in Trecento Florence /

A Moral Art : : Grammar, Society, and Culture in Trecento Florence / / Paul F. Gehl.

Focusing on one distinctive element of the early Renaissance reading public—boys who studied Latin grammar in Florence—Paul F. Gehl sheds new light on the history of schooling in the West. Far from advancing the cause of humanism, he shows, the elementary grammar masters of fourteenth-century Floren...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Gehl, Paul F.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1993
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 5 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Educational Structures
  • 2. Schoolboys’ Books
  • 3. Donadello: Deciding to “Latinize”
  • 4. Reading Texts: The Pagan Classics
  • 5. Reading Texts: The Christian Classics
  • 6. Reading Texts: The Monastic Heritage
  • 7. Reading Texts: Medieval Ovidians
  • 8. Linguistic and Social Hierarchies: The Grammarian’s Place
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix. Census of Reading Books
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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