Elementary and Grammar Education in Late Medieval France: Lyon, 1285–1530. Sarah B. Lynch. Knowledge Communities. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 190 pp. €89

The educational system (as the author notes, the notion is anachronistic) included a substantial number and variety of elementary and intermediate schools, but no advanced studies were to be had. Lynch provides a case study (101–06) of Ascensius and his influential reading anthology for Latin studen...

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Published inRenaissance quarterly Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 297 - 299
Main Author Gehl, Paul F.
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2021
Subjects
Case studies
Education
Elementary schools
Grammar instruction
Renaissance period
Students
France
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Summary:The educational system (as the author notes, the notion is anachronistic) included a substantial number and variety of elementary and intermediate schools, but no advanced studies were to be had. Lynch provides a case study (101–06) of Ascensius and his influential reading anthology for Latin students, Sylvae morales. More curious still is the author's rather timid attack on the influential treatment of medieval education by Philippe Ariès (L'Enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien Régime [1960], very widely read in English as Centuries of Childhood [1962]).
ISSN:0034-4338
1935-0236
DOI:10.1017/rqx.2020.365