Medieval Schools

Medieval Schools
Author: Nicholas Orme
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780300111026

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.

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107658926

An invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature.

Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry

Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry
Author: A. C. Spearing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1985
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This critical book studies in depth the transition from the 'medieval' to the 'Renaissance' periods in English literature.

Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Author: Robert Black
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2001-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139429019

Based on the study of over 500 surviving manuscript school books, this comprehensive 2001 study of the curriculum of school education in medieval and Renaissance Italy contains some surprising conclusions. Robert Black's analysis finds that continuity and conservatism, not innovation, characterize medieval and Renaissance teaching. The study of classical texts in medieval Italian schools reached its height in the twelfth century; this was followed by a collapse in the thirteenth century, an effect on school teaching of the growth of university education. This collapse was only gradually reversed in the two centuries that followed: it was not until the later 1400s that humanists began to have a significant impact on education. Scholars of European history, of Renaissance studies, and of the history of education will find that this deeply researched and broad-ranging book challenges much inherited wisdom about education, humanism and the history of ideas.

The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature

The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature
Author: Clare A. Lees
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 910
Release: 2012-11-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 131617509X

Informed by multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the tremendous breadth of Anglo-Latin literature. Chapters on English learning and literature in the ninth century and the later formation of English poetry and prose also convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. Providing a discussion of essential texts, including Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this History captures the sheer inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science and the history of women's writing.

Children's Literature of the English Renaissance

Children's Literature of the English Renaissance
Author: Warren W. Wooden
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2015-01-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813165059

Warren W. Wooden's pioneering studies of early examples of children's literature throw new light on many accepted works of the English Renaissance period. In consequence, they appear more complex, significant, and successful than hitherto realized. In these nine essays, Wooden traces the roots of English children's literature in the Renaissance beginning with the first printed books of Caxton and ranging through the work of John Bunyan. Wooden examines a number of works and authors from this period of two centuries -- some from the standard canon, others obscure or neglected -- while addressing questions about the early development of children's literature.

England and the 12th-century Renaissance

England and the 12th-century Renaissance
Author: Rodney M. Thomson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Books and learning in 12th-century Europe are the broad concern of the nineteen papers assembled here. The discussion of 'books' ranges from important individual manuscripts, to collections manufactured in 'scriptoria' and kept in 'libraries'; the 'learning' is primarily the composition, transmission and study of Latin literary texts, both ancient and contemporary. Special attention is given to the Latin classics, to the literary culture of the larger Benedictine houses, to the phenomenal quantity of Latin satirical writing of the period, and to the dissemination and reception of texts and ideas over time. While the geographical focus is England, the relationship of English materials and developments to the wider European context is constantly emphasized.

Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages

Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages
Author: H. Cooney
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2006-09-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1403983534

This is a set of essays from many of the leading scholars in the world of medieval studies, which addresses a wide diversity of texts and genres and their diverse perspectives on love. Attention is given to interaction between English writings and putative continental and international influences, with particular emphasis on the works of Chaucer.

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1322
Release: 1974-08-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521200042

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.