The Curricular Classics in the Middle Ages
Rita Copeland
Abstract The medieval teaching of the liberal arts ensured contact with classical auctores. From late period to Middle Ages, copying verse and prose never ceased: it flourished especially in Carolingian eleventh twelfth centuries. Learning Latin involved literary study, scope grammar included knowledge a canon inherited from period. Literacy was thus as pervasively shaped by curriculum scriptural liturgical Latinity, so that writers might be hardwired use certain turn phrase, figure, or even adapted quotation express an idea. not simply general capacity for reading, but determined what most commonly read early education. This chapter traces evidence uses many authors school curricula c.800 c.1400.
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