Confabulations: Cologne life and humanism in Hermann Schottens Confabulationes Tironum Litterariorum (Cologne, 1525)

by Macardle, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780719081866
• ISBN10: 0719081866
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-01
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

Summary

This study, a companion to Peter Macardle's edition of theConfabulationes, examines the ways in which the colloquies relate to their Cologne background, to the major contemporary colloquy collections (particularly Erasmus'sColloquiaand Mosellanus'sPaedologia), and to the humanist renewal of Classical Latin. It also looks in detail at the documentary traces of Schotten's career, and of his networks of friendship and patronage, and tries to understand how he fitted into the structures of a university which has often been (wrongly) understood as hostile to humanism. Based on primary archival material, this is the only full-length study of this underrated German humanist's life and work.

Author Biography

Peter Macardle is Lecturer in German in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University.

Table of Contents

Non-Bibliographic Abbreviations	p. iv
List of Illustrations	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Through a Glass Darkly. Hermann Schotten's Career	p. 19
Space, Time and Culture. The Confabulationes and Early Modern Cologne	p. 55
The confabulationes and other Humanist Colloquy Collections	p. 91
Schotten's Latinity	p. 129
Visible Means of support? Traces of Schotten's Networks	p. 151
Conclusions	p. 205
Select Bibliography	p. 211
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