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The Disputatio Puerorum: A Ninth-Century Monastic Instructional Text

The Disputatio Puerorum: A Ninth-Century Monastic Instructional Text

Rabin, Andrew
Felsen, Liam

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Series: Toronto Medieval Texts & Translations, Book 34

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryReligion General

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ISBN10: 0888444842
ISBN13: 9780888444844
Publisher: Pontifical Inst Of Medieval St
Published: Sep 30 2017
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
A school dialogue most likely composed in southeastern Germany in the early ninth century, the Disputatio puerorum offers a vivid and direct glimpse into the sort of instruction received by monastic novices and oblates in abbey schools of the Carolingian and Holy Roman Empires. Its question-and-answer format between students and master deploys an elementary Latin that would have consolidated linguistic skills at the same time as offering instruction on the nature of body and soul, the books of the Old and New Testaments, the Mass, and the Lord's Prayer. The text's intrinsic interest for historians of early medieval education is matched by its usefulness to modern students as a short course in what constituted basic cultural literacy in the monastic schoolrooms of the ninth through eleventh centuries, as drawn above all from the works of Isidore of Seville, but also from Augustine, Gregory the Great, Bede, and Alcuin.

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