A Moral Art: Grammar, Society, and Culture in Trecento Florence

Paul F. Gehl

Published by Cornell University Press 1993

A Moral Art

Grammar, Society, and Culture in Trecento Florence

Paul F. Gehl

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501735394

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About this book

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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Paul F. Gehl is Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing at the Newberry Library.

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Provides major new perspectives on crucial issues in Italian Renaissance history: the nature of regional culture, questions of continuity in Latin curriculum, and, thus, the periodization of the coming of humanism and the place of Latin learning in Trecento Florence.... [A] stimulating study that will challenge many traditional views on the Latin curriculum of the early Renaissance.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Educational Structures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
2. Schoolboys’ Books Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. Donadello: Deciding to “Latinize” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
4. Reading Texts: The Pagan Classics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
5. Reading Texts: The Christian Classics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
6. Reading Texts: The Monastic Heritage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
7. Reading Texts: Medieval Ovidians Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
8. Linguistic and Social Hierarchies: The Grammarian’s Place Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Appendix. Census of Reading Books Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 5 b&w illustrations
Keywords: Cultural Studies; Italy

eBook

Published: May 15, 2019
ISBN: 9781501735394