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, John O. Ward, and Melanie Heyworth.
International conference proceedings. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Dreaming in class : Aristotle's De sompno in the schools / Lola Sharon Davidson -- 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 / Gabriele Knappe -- Teaching classical rhetoric in practice : evidence from Anselm de Besate / Beth S. Bennett -- Thierry of Chartres and the causes of rhetoric : from the Heptateuchon to teaching the Ars rhetorica / Rita Copeland -- The grammar and rhetoric offered to John of Salisbury / Karin Margareta Fredborg -- Accessus to classical ;poets in the twelfth century / Birger Munk Olsen -- What goes with Geoffrey of Vinsauf? Codicological clues to pedagogical practices in England, c. 1225-c. 1470 / Martin Camargo -- Progymnasmata and progymnasmatic exercises in the medieval classroom / Manfred Kraus -- Dreaming in class : Aristotle's De sompno in the schools / Lola Sharon Davidson -- George Buchanan's revision of the "St Andros" curriculum : Ramism, reformation religion, and Ciceronian humanism in transition / C. Jan Swearingen -- Teaching techniques : the evidence of manuscript schoolbooks produced in Tuscany / Robert Black -- George of Trebizond's De suavitate dicendi / Lucia Calboli Montefusco -- Spreading the word : Antonio Mancinelli, the printing press, and the teaching of the Studia humanitatis / Dugald McLellan -- Virgil in the Renaissance classroom : from Toscanella's Osservationi ... sopra l'opere di Virgilio to the Exercitationes rhetoricae / Craig Kallendorf -- What are the real differences between medieval and Renaissance commentaries? / Marjorie Curry Woods -- George Buchanan's revision of the "St Andros" curriculum : Ramism, reformation religion, and Ciceronian humanism in transition / C. Jan Swearingen -- 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 / 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 / Brian Taylor.
Summary:
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 off ering 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 anuanced insight into the formation of the premodern individual.
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