Confabulationes Tironum Litterariorum (Cologne, 1525): Hermannus Schottennius Hessus

Peter Macardle (Curatore)

Manchester University Press, 2009

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. -- .

• Curatore: Peter Macardle
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Collana: Durham Modern Languages Series
• Anno: 2009
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 616 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 138 mm
• EAN: 9780719081859

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