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Author Moss, Ann, 1938-

Title Printed commonplace-books and the structuring of Renaissance thought / Ann Moss
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 345 pages)
Contents 1. Ancient and Medieval Places -- 2. Medieval Prehistory -- 3. Italian Relations and Northern Progenitors -- 4. Midwives to the Commonplace-Book -- 5. The Commonplace-Book at Birth -- 6. Commonplace-Books at School -- 7. Commonplace-Books in Print -- 8. Seventeenth Century: Consolidation -- 9. Seventeenth Century: Decline
Summary Commonplace-books were the information-organizers of Early Modern Europe, notebooks of quotations methodically arranged for easy retrieval. From their first introduction to the rudiments of Latin to the specialized studies or leisure reading of their later years, the pupils of humanist schools were trained to use commonplace-books, which formed an immensely important element of Renaissance education
The commonplace-book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of knowledge. In this ground-breaking study Ann Moss investigates the commonplace-book's medieval antecedents, its methodology and use as promulgated by its humanist advocates, its varieties as exemplified in its printed manifestations, and the reasons for its gradual decline in the seventeenth century
The book covers the Latin culture of Early Modern Europe and its vernacular counterparts and continuations, particularly in France
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-338) and index
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Includes an appendix of Latin quotations
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Subject Latin philology -- Study and teaching -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Latin philology -- Study and teaching -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching -- Europe -- History
Quotations, Latin -- Study and teaching -- Europe -- History
Commonplace books -- Study and teaching -- Europe -- History
Learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History
Latin language -- Textbooks -- History
Moral education -- Europe -- History
Humanists -- Europe
Renaissance.
Renaissance.
Humanists.
Intellectual life.
Latin language -- Textbooks.
Latin philology -- Study and teaching.
Learning and scholarship.
Moral education.
Renaissance.
Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching.
Citatenboeken.
Latijn.
Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Renaissance.
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045726
Subject Europe.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191673474
0191673471