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CONFABULATIONES TIRONUM LITTERARIORUM (COLOGNE, 1525)
HERMANNUS SCHOTTENNIUS HESSUS |
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Peter Macardle (Editor) |
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| ISBN 10: |
0719081858 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780719081859 |
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| Publisher: |
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 2009 |
| Series: |
Durham Modern Languages Seires |
| Pages: |
612 |
| Language: |
English, Latin |
| Description: |
Confabulationes tironum litterariorum is one of the liveliest pedagogical works of the sixteenth century and a vivid and valuable cultural document of life in the early modern metropolis of Cologne. -- . |
| Synopsis: |
The humanist Hermann Schotten, or Hermannus Schottennius Hessus (c. 1503-1546), student, schoolmaster, and university lecturer in Cologne, was the author of a number of works on humanist pedagogy. His Confabulationes tironum litterariorum of 1525, a collection of Latin dialogues designed to help schoolboys master Classical Latin conversation, was written in admiring imitation of the colloquies of Erasmus. But Schotten had his own distinctive style: a natural ear for dialogue, and a sympathetic understanding of the schoolboy world. As a result, he produced one of the liveliest pedagogical works of the century and a vivid and valuable cultural document of life in the early modern metropolis of Cologne. This critical edition of the Confabulationes, the first since the sixteenth century, makes this one-time best-seller available and comprehensible to modern readers. It presents the Latin text, a full English translation, and extensive notes on the language and on Schotten's many literary and cultural allusions, accompanied by a detailed investigation of the early printing history of the collection. -- . |
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Illustrations, black & white |
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UK |
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Manchester University Press |
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