Main entry:

Moss, Ann, 1938-

Title & Author:

Printed commonplace-books and the structuring of Renaissance thought / Ann Moss.

Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Description:

ix, 345 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-338) and index.
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.
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Includes an appendix of Latin quotations.
Dust jacket.

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.

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ISBN:

0198159080 (acid-free paper)
9780198159087 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Florilegium Gallicum.
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.
Philologie latine Étude et enseignement Europe Histoire 16e siècle.
Philologie latine Étude et enseignement Europe Histoire 17e siècle.
Pensée Étude et enseignement Europe Histoire.
Citations latines Étude et enseignement Europe Histoire.
Guides, vade-mecum, etc. Étude et enseignement Europe Histoire.
Savoir et érudition Europe Histoire.
Latin (Langue) Manuels Histoire et critique.
Éducation morale Europe Histoire.
Humanistes Europe.
Humanists.
Intellectual life.
Latin language Textbooks.
Latin philology Study and teaching.
Learning and scholarship.
Moral education.
Thought and thinking Study and teaching.
Citatenboeken.
Latijn.
Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Commonplace-books Study and teaching Europe History.
Citations Dictionnaires Renaissance.
Éducation Europe Renaissance.
Enseignement Europe Renaissance.
Citations latines.
Latin (langue) Étude et enseignement Renaissance.
Philosophie de la Renaissance.
Humanistes.
Savoir et érudition Europe Histoire 16e siècle.
Savoir et érudition Europe Histoire 17e siècle.
Citations latins Etude et enseignement Europe Histoire.
Europe Intellectual life.
Europe Vie intellectuelle.
Europe.
Europe Intellectual life History.
Europe Vie intellectuelle Renaissance.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 134721
Call No.: ID PA2047.M67; ID:97-B537
Status: Available