Confabulationes Tironum Litterariorum (Cologne, 1525) - Hermannus Schottennius Hessus (Paperback)

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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Durham Modern Languages Series
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	Peter MacArdle
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	616
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-8185-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7190-8185-8
Barcode:	9780719081859

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