The Classics in the Medieval and Renaissance Classroom

The Role of Ancient Texts in the Arts Curriculum as Revealed by Surviving Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

Edited by Juanita Feros Ruys Edited by John O Ward Edited by Melanie Heyworth

Book cover: The Classics in the Medieval and Renaissance Classroom

Extent: 430, 430 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Disputatio

Series volume number: 20

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2013)

ISBN: 9782503527543

6.1 x 9.17 inches

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“Medievalists and Renaissance specialists contribute to this compelling volume examining how and why the classics of Greek and Latin culture were taught in various Western European curricula (including in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and Italy) from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. By analysing some of the commentaries, g

Medievalists and Renaissance specialists contribute to this compelling volume examining how and why the classics of Greek and Latin culture were taught in various Western European curricula (including in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and Italy) from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. By analysing some of the commentaries, glosses, and paraphrases of these classics that were deployed in medieval and Renaissance classrooms, and by offering greater insight into premodern pedagogic practice, the chapters here emphasize the ‘pragmatic’ aspects of humanist study. The volume proposes that the classics continued to be studied in the medieval and Renaissance periods not simply for their cultural or ‘ornamental’ value, but also for utilitarian reasons, for ‘life lessons’. Because the volume goes beyond analysing the educational manuals surviving from the premodern period and attempts to elucidate the teaching methodology of the premodern period, it provides a nuanced insight into the formation of the premodern individual. The volume will therefore be of great interest to scholars and students interested in medieval and Renaissance history in general, as well as those interested in the history of educational theory and practice, or in the premodern reception of classical literature.

Illustrations, p. ix John O. Ward, The Classics in the Classroom: An Introduction, p. 1 Gabriele Knappe, Manuscript Evidence of the Teaching of the Language Arts in Late Anglo-Saxon and Early Norman England, with Particular Regard to the Role of the Classics, p. 23 Beth S. Bennett, Teaching Classical Rhetoric in Practice: Evidence from Anselm de Besate, p. 61 Rita Copeland, Thierry of Chartres and the Causes of Rhetoric: From the Heptateuchon to Teaching the Ars rhetorica, p. 81 Karin Margareta Fredborg, The Grammar and Rhetoric Offered to John of Salisbury, p. 103 Birger Munk Olsen, Accessus to Classical Poets in the Twelfth Century, p. 131 Martin Camargo, What Goes with Geoffrey of Vinsauf ? Codicological Clues to Pedagogical Practices in England, c. 1225-c. 1470, p. 145 Manfred Kraus, Progymnasmata and Progymnasmatic Exercises in the Medieval Classroom, p. 175 Lola Sharon Davidson, Dreaming in Class: Aristotle's De sompno in the Schools, p. 199 Steven J. Williams, Aristotle in the Medieval Classroom: Students, Teaching, and Educational Change in the Schools of Paris in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, p. 223 Robert Black, Teaching Techniques: The Evidence of Manuscript Schoolbooks Produced in Tuscany, p. 245 Lucia Calboli Montefusco, George of Trebizond's De suavitate dicendi, p. 267 Dugald McLellan, Spreading the Word: Antonio Mancinelli, the Printing Press, and the Teaching of the Studia humanitatis, p. 287 Craig Kallendorf, Virgil in the Renaissance Classroom: From Toscanella's Osservationi [] sopra l'opere di Virgilio to the Exercitationes rhetoricae, p. 309 Marjorie Curry Woods, What are the Real Differences between Medieval and Renaissance Commentaries?, p. 329 C. Jan Swearingen, George Buchanan's Revision of the 'St Andros' Curriculum: Ramism, Reformation Religion, and Ciceronian Humanism in Transition, p. 343 Ursula Potter, 'No Terence phrase: his tyme and myne are twaine': Erasmus, Terence, and Censorship in the Tudor Classroom, p. 365 Brian Taylor, Poetic Technique and the Liberal Arts in the Lay Schoolroom: The Singschule ('Singing School') of the German Mastersingers of the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries, p. 391 Index, p. 411

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Edited by John O Ward
Edited by Melanie Heyworth

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