Teaching And Learning Latin In Thirteenth Century England Texts

Author : Tony Hunt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 085991299X

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Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-century England by Tony Hunt Pdf

The rich cultural insights afforded by the study of medieval Latin are only beginning to be appreciated. In this difficult study of the text-books through which Latin was learned, together with the Latin, Anglo-Norman and English glosses to be found in their manuscript versions, Tony Hunt makes a pioneering attempt to understand its relationship to the vernaculars spoken in England.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. Here at last is the first systematic study of the teaching and learning of Latin in thirteenth century England based on evidence from nearly 200 manuscripts where the text has been glossed in the vernacular. These glosses provide the key to discovering the linguistic competence and interest of students at an elementary level: men and women who needed a working knowledge of Latin for practical purposes. The received view that Latin was the exclusive language of the schoolroom is shown to be mistaken and the exhaustive recording of the vernacular glosses provides a hitherto untapped source of lexical materials in French and Middle English. Teaching and Learning Latin is destined to become an essential source-book for medievalists interested in language, literacy and culture. TONY HUNT is a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford.

Author : Tony Hunt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Education, Medieval
ISBN : 0859913384

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Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-century England: Texts by Tony Hunt Pdf

Author : Christopher Cannon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191084836

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From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 by Christopher Cannon Pdf

The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was grammatical. The efflorescence of Ricardian poetry was not a direct result of this change, but it was everywhere shaped by it. This book characterizes this close connection between literacy training and literature, as it is manifest in the fine and ambitious poetry by Gower, Langland and Chaucer, at this transitional moment. This is also a book about the way medieval training in grammar (or grammatica) shaped the poetic arts in the Middle Ages fully as much as rhetorical training. It answers the curious question of what language was used to teach Latin grammar to the illiterate. It reveals, for the first time, what the surviving schoolbooks from the period actually contain. It describes what form a 'grammar school' took in a period from which no school buildings or detailed descriptions survive. And it scrutinizes the processes of elementary learning with sufficient care to show that, for the grown medieval schoolboy, well-learned books functioned, not only as a touchstone for wisdom, but as a knowledge so personal and familiar that it was equivalent to what we would now call 'experience'.

Author : David Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521890462

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The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature by David Wallace Pdf

This is the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: After the Norman Conquest ; Writing in the British Isles ; Institutional Productions ; After the Black Death and Before the Reformation . It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers the most extensive and vibrant account available of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.

Author : Andrew Reeves
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004294455

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Religious Education in Thirteenth-Century England by Andrew Reeves Pdf

In Religious Education in Thirteenth-Century England, Andrew Reeves shows how English laypeople learned the basic doctrines of the Christian faith in the thirteenth century.

Author : Juhani Norri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1310 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317151098

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Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550 by Juhani Norri Pdf

Medical texts written in English during the late Middle Ages have in recent years attracted increasing attention among scholars. From approximately 1375 onwards, the use of English began to gain a firmer foothold in medical manuscripts, which in previous centuries had been written mainly in Latin or French. Scholars of Middle English, and editors of medical texts from late medieval England, are thus faced with a huge medical vocabulary which no single volume has yet attempted to define. This dictionary is therefore an essential reference tool. The material analysed in the Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550 includes edited texts, manuscripts and early printed books, and represents three main types of medical writing: surgical manuals and tracts; academic treatises by university-trained physicians, and remedybooks. The dictionary covers four lexical fields: names of sicknesses, body parts, instruments, and medicinal preparations. Entries are structured as follows: (1) headword (2) scribal variants occurring in the texts (3) etymology (4) definition(s), each definition followed by relevant quotations (5) references to corresponding entries in the Dictionary of Old English, Middle English Dictionary, and The Oxford English Dictionary (6) references to academic books and articles containing information on the history and/or meaning of the term.

Author : William Lily
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780199668113

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Lily's Grammar of Latin in English: An Introduction of the Eyght Partes of Speche, and the Construction of the Same by William Lily Pdf

This is an edition of the sixteenth-century Latin grammar which became, by Henry VIII's acclamation, the first authorized text for the teaching of Latin in grammar schools in England. It deeply influenced the study of Latin and the understanding of grammar. This edition includes chapters on its origins, composition, and subsequent history.

Author : Margaret Laing
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0859913848

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Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English by Margaret Laing Pdf

This catalogue is a state-of-knowledge list of the English written between c 1150 and 1300, whether later versions of Old English texts or original early Middle English. With over 500 entries relating to manuscripts containing writing in English, it describes in detail literary material, both prose and verse, documentary texts, and glosses. The catalogue draws together an extensive body of information only available up to now from widely scattered sources. As well as being listed by their repositories, the manuscripts are also separately indexed by text. Information is provided on dates, hands, manuscript associations and language. Also given are references to editions and secondary literature.

Author : Cédric Giraud
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004410138

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A Companion to Twelfth-Century Schools by Cédric Giraud Pdf

A nuanced introduction to the schools of the 12th century, insisting on the fertile confluence between ancient knowledge and new techniques and on the interaction between masters and pupils.

Author : Nicholas Orme
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0300111029

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Medieval Schools by Nicholas Orme Pdf

A sequel to Nicholas Orme's widely praised study, Medieval Children Children have gone to school in England since Roman times. By the end of the middle ages there were hundreds of schools, supporting a highly literate society. This book traces their history from the Romans to the Renaissance, showing how they developed, what they taught, how they were run, and who attended them. Every kind of school is covered, from reading schools in churches and town grammar schools to schools in monasteries and nunneries, business schools, and theological schools. The author also shows how they fitted into a constantly changing world, ending with the impacts of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Medieval schools anticipated nearly all the ideas, practices, and institutions of schooling today. Their remarkable successes in linguistic and literary work, organizational development, teaching large numbers of people shaped the societies that they served. Only by understanding what schools achieved can we fathom the nature of the middle ages.

Author : Christine Franzen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351870313

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Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers by Christine Franzen Pdf

The teaching of Latin remained important after the Conquest but Anglo-Norman now became a language of instruction and, from the thirteenth century onwards, a language to be learned. During this period English lexicographers were more numerous, more identifiable and their works more varied, for example: the tremulous hand of Worcester created an Old English-Latin glossary, and Walter de Bibbesworth wrote a popular contextualized verse vocabulary of Anglo-Norman country life and activities. The works and techniques of Latin scholars such as Adam of Petit Point, Alexander Nequam, and John of Garland were influential throughout the period. In addition, grammarians' and schoolmasters' books preserve material which in some cases seems to have been written by them. The material discussed ranges from a twelfth-century glossary written at a minor monastic house to four large alphabetical fifteenth-century dictionaries, some of which were widely available. Some material seems to connect with the much earlier Old English glossaries in ways not yet fully understood.

Author : Andrew Galloway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521856898

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture by Andrew Galloway Pdf

A compact collection of focused introductions to and inquiries into medieval England, representing both history and literature.

Author : Mikael Males
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110643930

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The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature by Mikael Males Pdf

This book assesses the importance of poetry for the Old Icelandic literary flowering of c. 1150–1350. It addresses the apparent paradox that an extremely conservative form of literature, namely skaldic poetry, was at the core of the most innovative literary and intellectual experiments in the period. The book argues that this cannot simply be explained as a result of strong local traditions, as in most previous scholarship. Thus, for instance, the author demonstrates that the mix of prose and poetry found in kings’ sagas and sagas of Icelanders is roughly contemporary to the written sagas. Similarly, he argues that treatises on poetics and mythology, including Snorri’s Edda, are new to the period, not only in their textual form, but also in their systematic mode of analysis. The book contends that what is truly new in these texts is the method of the authors, derived from Latin learning, but applied to traditional forms and motifs as encapsulated in the skaldic tradition. In this way, Christian Latin learning allowed for its perceived opposite, vernacular oral literature of pagan extraction, to reach full fruition and to largely replace the very literature which had made this process possible in the first place.

Author : Jozef Ijsewijn
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9061867649

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Humanistica Lovaniensia by Jozef Ijsewijn Pdf

Volume 45

Author : Rita Copeland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191077777

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The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature by Rita Copeland Pdf

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five volumes. OHCREL endeavours to interrogate, rather than inertly reiterate, conventional assumptions about literary 'periods', the processes of canon-formation, and the relations between literary and non-literary discourse. It conceives of 'reception' as a complex process of dialogic exchange and, rather than offering large cultural generalizations, it engages in close critical analysis of literary texts. It explores in detail the ways in which English writers' engagement with classical literature casts as much light on the classical originals as it does on the English writers' own cultural context. This first volume, and fourth to appear in the series, covers the years c.800-1558, and surveys the reception and transformation of classical literary culture in England from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the Henrician era. Chapters on the classics in the medieval curriculum, the trivium and quadrivium, medieval libraries, and medieval mythography provide context for medieval reception. The reception of specific classical authors and traditions is represented in chapters on Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius, the matter of Troy, Boethius, moral philosophy, historiography, biblical epics, English learning in the twelfth century, and the role of antiquity in medieval alliterative poetry. The medieval section includes coverage of Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate, while the part of the volume dedicated to the later period explores early English humanism, humanist education, and libraries in the Henrician era, and includes chapters that focus on the classicism of Skelton, Douglas, Wyatt, and Surrey.