Anglo-Saxon schoolbooks
Scott Gwara
Anglo-Saxon pedagogy derives from late Roman and provincial precedents, extant booklists or books, descriptions of monastic routines, both English Continental. In a school boy would learn language arts arithmetical calculation in the elementary curriculum. Many Isidore's derivations are fanciful, but their occurrence texts glosses may reveal linguistic precision covered grammatical study. Science classroom took form computus natural history. Elementary was found curriculum be best represented Bede's De temporum ratione temporibus. The advanced monastery have included significant amount Latin verse. Prosper's Epigrammata thought as superseding Cato's Distichs thoroughly pagan work. Production Chronicle translations Historia ecclesiastica Orosius' adversus paganos suggest prominence subject.
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