Humanism and education in medieval and Renaissance Italy : tradition and innovation in Latin schools from the twelfth to the fifteenth century / Robert Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Robert, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Study and teaching--Italy--History--To 1500.

Latin language.

Latin language, Medieval and modern--Study and teaching--Italy.

Latin language, Medieval and modern.

Educational innovations--Italy--History--To 1500.

Educational innovations.

Education, Humanistic--Italy--History--To 1500.

Education, Humanistic.

Humanism--Italy--History--To 1500.

Humanism.

Education, Medieval--Italy.

Education, Medieval.

Humanists--Italy.

Humanists.

Italy--Intellectual life--1268-1559.

Italy.

Italy--Intellectual life--To 1268.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 489 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Humanism & Education in Medieval & Renaissance Italy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on the study of over 500 surviving manuscript school books, this comprehensive 2001 study of the curriculum of school education in medieval and Renaissance Italy contains some surprising conclusions. Robert Black's analysis finds that continuity and conservatism, not innovation, characterize medieval and Renaissance teaching. The study of classical texts in medieval Italian schools reached its height in the twelfth century; this was followed by a collapse in the thirteenth century, an effect on school teaching of the growth of university education. This collapse was only gradually reversed in the two centuries that followed: it was not until the later 1400s that humanists began to have a significant impact on education. Scholars of European history, of Renaissance studies, and of the history of education will find that this deeply researched and broad-ranging book challenges much inherited wisdom about education, humanism and the history of ideas.

Contents:

Italian Renaissance education: an historiographical perspective

The elementary school curriculum in medieval and Renaissance Italy: traditional methods and developing texts

The secondary grammar curriculum

Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools: the story of a canon

Reading Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools

Rhetoric and style in the school grammar syllabus.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-455) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-11170-6

0-521-03612-7

0-511-32830-3

0-511-49668-0

0-511-11601-2

1-280-15171-4

0-511-05251-0

0-511-15423-2

OCLC:

171135462