Education and society in Florentine Tuscany / / by Robert Black.

• Author: Black, Robert, 1946-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston [Mass.] : : Brill,, 2007-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, v. 29; Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 29.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (870 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Scholarship on pre-university education in Italy during the Middle Ages and Renaissance has been dominated by studies of individual towns or by general syntheses of Italy as a whole; in contrast, this work offers not only an archival study of a region but also attempts to discern crucial local variations on a comparative basis. It documents mass literacy in the city of Florence; the school curriculum in the individual Florentine subject towns, as well as in the city of Florence itself; the decline of church education and the rise of lay schools; the development of communal schools in Florentine Tuscany up to 1400; and teachers, schools and pupils in the city of Florence during the fifteenth century.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / R.D. Black -- Chapter One. Literacy in Florence, 1427 / R.D. Black -- Chapter Two. The school curriculum in florentine Tuscany and in the city of Florence / R.D. Black -- Chapter Three. The decline of church education and the rise of lay schools in Tuscany / R.D. Black -- Chapter Four. The rise of communal schools in florentine Tuscany: 1262 to 1400 / R.D. Black -- Chapter Five. Teachers, schools and pupils in Florence during the fifteenth century / R.D. Black -- Appendix One. Education in the florentine Catasto, 1427 / R.D. Black -- Appendix Two. Education in the florentine Catasto, 1458 / R.D. Black -- Appendix Three. Communal schoolteachers in Florence up to 1500 / R.D. Black -- Appendix Four. Communal schoolteachers in florentine Tuscany (and Siena) up to 1400 / R.D. Black -- Appendix Five. Education in unpublished florentine Ricordanze (up to 1507) / R.D. Black -- Appendix Six. Education in the matriculation records of the florentine company of the purification / R.D. Black -- Appendix Seven. Additional documents on education in Arezzo discovered since 1996 / R.D. Black -- Appendix Eight. Documents on education in Sansepolcro up to 1400 / R.D. Black -- Bibliography / R.D. Black -- Index of names / R.D. Black.