Education and Society in Florentine Tuscany
Author | : Robert Black |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 870 |
Release | : 2007-07-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789047421399 |
ISBN-13 | : 9047421396 |
Rating | : 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Download or read book Education and Society in Florentine Tuscany written by Robert Black and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.