Humanism and education in medieval and Renaissance Italy
Subtitle: tradition and innovation in Latin schools from the twelfth to the fifteenth century
By: Robert Black.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: Latin language -- Study and teaching -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.; Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Study and teaching -- Italy.; Educational innovations -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.; Education, Humanistic -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.; Humanism -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.; Education, Medieval -- Italy.; Humanists -- Italy.; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559.; Italy -- Intellectual life -- To 1268.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-455) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction I; title: I Italian Renaissance education: an historiographical perspective I2; title: 2 The elementary school curriculum in medieval and; title: Renaissance Italy: traditional methods and developing texts 34; title: Doctores puerorum 34; title: Tabula, carta, salterium 36; title: lanua 44; title: lanua: its origins and early character 45; title: lanua's early prevalence in Italy 48; title: Other early manuscripts of lanua: the character and development of; title: the text before the fifteenth century 50; title: The later development of lanua 55; title: 3 The secondary grammar curriculum 64; title: The ancient and medieval background 64; title: The twelfth century and the invention of secondary grammar 69; title: The thirteenth century and the emergence of a distinctive Italian approach 82; title: The fourteenth century and the rise of the vernacular 98; title: The fifteenth century: an era of failed reform 124; title: Conclusion '17; title: 4 Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools:; title: the story of a canon I73; title: Major and minor authors 173; title: The Dark Ages: decline and renaissance of the classics 174; title: The tenth and eleventh centuries: the ascendant classics 179; title: The twelfth century: the classical apogee 185; title: The thirteenth century: revolution; title: The fourteenth century: counter-revolution; title: The fifteenth century: tenacious traditions and new fashions; title: The minor authors; title: Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy; title: The Latin classics; title: Lucan, Claudian, Seneca the Tragedian; title: Valerius Maximus, Statius and Horace; title: Ovid, Persius,Juvenal, Terence, Vergil and Sallust; title: Cicero; title: The late fifteenth century and the triumph of humanism; title: Conclusion; title: 5 Reading Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance; title: Italian schools; title: Glossing between the lines: the struggling pupil; title: The role of the vernacular; title: Word order; title: Interlinear Latin synonyms; title: Grammatical analysis; title: Glossing in the margins: the triumph of philology over morality; title: Rhetorical figures; title: Grammar; title: Mnemonic verses; title: Geography; title: History; title: Mythology; title: Paraphrase; title: Authorities; title: Introductory philosophy; title: Introductory rhetorical analysis; title: Introductory and accompanying material; title: Probationespennae, drawings and colophons; title: Accessus; title: Metric analysis; title: Sententiae; title: Allegory; title: School glosses and learned commentaries: tradition and adaptation in; title: reading Boethius's Consolation; title: 6 Rhetoric and style in the school grammar syllabus; title: The secondary syllabus as an integrated curriculum; title: Grammar and rhetoric; title: Rhetoric and style in the Italian grammar syllabus before the; title: Renaissance: the force of tradition; title: Rhetoric and style in the grammar curriculum during the fifteenth; title: century: innovation triumphant; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix I BL Harley 2653: the earliest known manuscript; title: of Ianua; title: Appendix II - A handlist of manuscripts of Ianua; title: Appendix III Manuscripts of Tebaldo's Regule; title: Appendix IV Handlist of manuscripts of school authors; title: produced in Italy and now found in; title: Florentine libraries; title: Appendix V Theoretical grammar manuscripts in Florentine; title: libraries examined and included or eliminated as; title: Italian school grammars; title: Appendix VI Authorities cited explicitly in manuscripts of; title: major school authors in Florentine libraries; title: Bibliography; title: Index of manuscripts; title: General index.