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

Published Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019] ©1993

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Description 1 online resource : 5 b&w illustrations 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 Notes In English Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019) Subject Latin philology -- Study and teaching -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- To 1500 Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Italy -- Florence -- Style Language and culture -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- To 1500 Latin literature -- Appreciation -- Italy -- Florence Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence Humanists -- Italy -- Florence HISTORY / Europe / Italy. Humanists Language and culture Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Style Latin literature -- Appreciation Latin philology -- Study and teaching Renaissance SUBJECT Florence (Italy) -- History -- To 1421. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049195 Subject Italy -- Florence Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501735394 150173539X

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