Verbal Regulation in Early Modern French School and Plainchant Books
Xavier Bisaro
Under the French ancien régime, Latin reading was commonly taught in parochial or charitable schools, so-called petites écoles. The goal to enable pupils pronounce prayers and psalms accordance with learned ecclesiastical culture. instruction modeling provided by schoolmasters were essential children's training, but so too books they used. Books of hours, ABCs, psalters integrated particular typographical layouts, punctuation, other symbols help read aloud. A similar system visual cues established plainchant course seventeenth century. This essay explores for first time graphic convergence between school (reading primers) books. It examines how helped develop literacy often semiliterate people through oral performance both singing. In "Voicing Text 1500–1700," ed. Jennifer Richards Richard Wistreich, special issue, http://muse.jhu.edu/resolve/66.
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