The Classics in the Classroom — An Introduction
John O. Ward
Medievalists and Renaissance specialists contribute to this compelling volume examining how why the classics of Greek Latin culture were taught in various Western European curricula (including England, Scotland, France,Germany, Italy) from tenth sixteenth centuries. By analysing some commentaries, glosses, paraphrases these that deployed medieval classrooms, by offering greater insight into premodern pedagogic practice, chapters here emphasize ‘pragmatic’ aspects humanist study. The proposes continued be studied periods not simply for their cultural or ‘ornamental’ value, but also utilitarian reasons, ‘life lessons’. Because goes beyond educational manuals surviving period attempts elucidate teaching methodology period, it provides a nuanced formation individual. will therefore great interest scholars students interested history general, as well those theory reception classical literature.
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