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Medievalists and Renaissance specialists contribute to this compelling volume examining how and why the classics of Greek and Latin culture were taught in various Western European curricula (including in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and Italy) from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. By analysing some of the commentaries, glosses, and paraphrases of these classics that were deployed in medieval and Renaissance classrooms, and by off ering greater insight into premodern pedagogic practice, the chapters here emphasize the 'pragmatic' aspects of humanist study. The volume proposes that the classics continued to be studied in the medieval and Renaissance periods not simply for their cultural or 'ornamental' value, but also for utilitarian reasons, for 'life lessons'. Because the volume goes beyond analysing the educational manuals surviving from the premodern period and attempts to elucidate the teaching methodology of the premodern period, it provides anuanced insight into the formation of the premodern individual.

Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- Classical education --- Classical literature --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Manuscripts, Renaissance --- Enseignement classique --- Littérature ancienne --- Manuscrits médiévaux --- Manuscrits de la Renaissance --- History --- Criticism, Textual --- Study and teaching --- Histoire --- Critique textuelle --- Etude et enseignement --- Littérature antique --- Éducation médiévale --- Éducation --- Étude et enseignement --- Education, Medieval --- Education --- 094:87 --- 873.4 --- 371 --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Klassieke literatuur --- Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur --- Onderwijs. Schoolwezen --- 371 Onderwijs. Schoolwezen --- 873.4 Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur --- 094:87 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Klassieke literatuur --- Littérature ancienne --- Manuscrits médiévaux --- History. --- 873.4 Humanist Latin literature --- Humanist Latin literature