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From Literacy to Literature - England, 1300-1400 (Paperback)
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From Literacy to Literature - England, 1300-1400 (Paperback)
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The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our
lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of
the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only
learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time,
that their mother tongue, English, was grammatical. The
efflorescence of Ricardian poetry was not a direct result of this
change, but it was everywhere shaped by it. This book characterizes
this close connection between literacy training and literature, as
it is manifest in the fine and ambitious poetry by Gower, Langland
and Chaucer, at this transitional moment. This is also a book about
the way medieval training in grammar (or grammatica) shaped the
poetic arts in the Middle Ages fully as much as rhetorical
training. It answers the curious question of what language was used
to teach Latin grammar to the illiterate. It reveals, for the first
time, what the surviving schoolbooks from the period actually
contain. It describes what form a 'grammar school' took in a period
from which no school buildings or detailed descriptions survive.
And it scrutinizes the processes of elementary learning with
sufficient care to show that, for the grown medieval schoolboy,
well-learned books functioned, not only as a touchstone for wisdom,
but as a knowledge so personal and familiar that it was equivalent
to what we would now call 'experience'.
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