IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1611: Late Medieval School Children and their Books
Thursday 14 July 2005, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Annemarieke Willemsen, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Annemarieke Willemsen, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden |
| Paper 1611-a | Who Went to School in Late Medieval Holland? (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Education, Genealogy and Prosopography, Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 1611-b | The First Latin-English Dictionary Was Written for School Children (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Schools and pupils were a common element of late-medieval towns. In the course of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, schools had become detached of religious institutes and taken over by civil authorities, who did their best to create good and accessible education for as many inhabitants as possible. This session will feature recent research on the population and position of schools and into the books that were written and printed for use in the schools curriculum. This shows that in this period going to school was the rule, not the exception. |