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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