Confabulationes Tironum Litterariorum (Cologne, 1525) : Hermannus Schottennius Hessus Paperback / softback
Edited by Peter Macardle
Part of the Durham Modern Languages Series series
Paperback / softback
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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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- Pages:616 pages, Illustrations, black & white
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2009
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:616 pages, Illustrations, black & white
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2009
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- ISBN:9780719081859
