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Education and Society in Florentine Tuscany: Teachers, Pupils and Schools, C. 1250-1500

Robert Black

Scholarship on pre-university education in Italy during the Middle Ages and Renaissance has been dominated by studies of individual towns or by general syntheses of Italy as a whole; in contrast, this work offers not only an archival study of a region but also attempts to discern crucial local variations on a comparative basis. It documents mass literacy in the city of Florence; the school curriculum in the individual Florentine subject towns, as well as in the city of Florence itself; the decline of church education and the rise of lay schools; the development of communal schools in Florentine Tuscany up to 1400; and teachers, schools and pupils in the city of Florence during the fifteenth century.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publish Date: Aug 13rd, 2007
  • Pages: 880
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.70in - 6.80in - 2.10in - 3.50lb
  • EAN: 9789004158535
  • Categories: Europe - MedievalGeneralSociology - General

About the Author

Robert Black, Ph.D. (1974) in History, University of London, is Professor of Renaissance History at the University of Leeds. He has previously published seven books on the Italian Renaissance, including Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: tradition and innovation in Latin schools from the twelfth to the fifteenth century (Cambridge University Press, 2001).