The Disputatio puerorum: a ninth-century monastic instructional text

"A school dialogue most likely composed in south-eastern Germany in the early ninth century, the Disputatio puerorum offers a vivid and direct glimpse into the sort of instruction received by monastic novices and oblates in abbey schools of the Carolingian and Holy Roman Empires. Its question-a...

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Other Authors: Rabin, Andrew ca. 20./21. Jh (Editor), Felsen, Liam 1971- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Latin
Published: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Published for the Centre for Medieval Studies by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies [2017]
Series:Toronto medieval latin texts 34
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Online Access:Rezension
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Summary:"A school dialogue most likely composed in south-eastern Germany in the early ninth century, the Disputatio puerorum offers a vivid and direct glimpse into the sort of instruction received by monastic novices and oblates in abbey schools of the Carolingian and Holy Roman Empires. Its question-and-answer format between students and master deploys an elementary Latin that would have consolidated linguistic skills at the same time as offering instruction on the nature of body and soul, the books of the Old and New Testaments, the Mass, and the Lord's Prayer. The text's intrinsic interest for historians of early medieval education is matched by its usefulness to modern students as a short course in what constituted basic cultural literacy in the monastic schoolrooms of the ninth through eleventh centuries, as drawn above all from the works of Isidore of Seville, but also from Augustine, Gregory the Great, Bede, and Alcuin."--
Item Description:This volume is based on the A-recension of the Disputatio, Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 458
Physical Description:102 Seiten
ISBN:9780888444844
DOI:10.11588/frrec.2018.3.51776

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