Robert Black, Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Tradition and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century.(Book Review)

Publication: Medium Aevum

Publication Date: 22-SEP-02

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COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), xv + 489 pp. ISBN 0-521-40192-5. 55.00 [pounds sterling]/$80.00.

This is a comprehensive study of the Latin school curriculum in medieval and Renaissance Italy. Its principal focus is on the lower strata of the educational hierarchy, the study of grammar. After an introductory chapter on the historiographical perspectives in which the Latin curriculum has been discussed, Robert Black treats in subsequent chapters the elementary stage of education, the secondary grammar syllabus, the canon of Latin authors (divided since the twelfth century into minor and major authors), reading and glossing techniques in the classroom, and...

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