Full Description
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.
Contents
List of illustrations
Non-bibliographic abbreviations
Acknowledgements
I. Introduction
Ia. Hermannus Schottennius Hessus: life and work
Ib. The editions of the *Confabulationes*
Ic. The earliest printings of the *Confabulationes*
II. Text edition of the *Confabulationes*
IIa. Editorial principles and conventions
IIb. The Colloquies
IIc. The *Conuiuia*
III. Notes on the Colloquies and the *Conuiuia*
IIIa. Notes on the Colloquies
IIIb. Notes on the *Conuiuia*
IIIc. Index of Schotten's non-classical Latin
Select bibliography
