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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) : 5 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781501735394
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 Florence worked against it in the name of morality.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781501735394

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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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 Florence worked against it in the name of morality.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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