Thomas Platter and the Educational Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century - Couverture souple

Monroe, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1410203697 ISBN 13 : 9781410203694

Editeur : University Press of the Pacific, 2002

Synopsis

This book is a classic in the field of the history of education. It contains the autobiography of Thomas Platter (the memoirs of a shepherd turned academic 1499-1582) and a discussion of his life and times. Written in 1572 but not published until the eighteenth century, it furnishes the best known account of the life of the wandering student of the later middle ages. To quote from Platter: "In the school of St. Elizabeth, indeed, at one time, nine Baccalaureates read at the same hour, in the same room. The Greek language was not yet anywhere in the land. Similarly, no one yet had printed books; the preceptor alone had a printed Terence. What one read must first be dictated, then defined, then construed, and then only could he explain it; so that the bacchants had to carry home great, miserable books when they went away."

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Bummer traveller in the A lps leaves Laasaime, on Lake Geneva, on a slow train and goes up the valley of the Rhone, reaching Visp in four or five hours. The river Visp here Bows into the Rhone. Viap is the name of the parish in which the author of this autobiographywas horn. It is a parish in the canton of Valais. In the autohiography the canton is spelled Walless, and the modern spelling I b Wallis. It includes the valley of the Rhone from the upper end of Lake Geneva to its source in the Rhone glacier. Our traveller, who is supposed to make a journey from Lausanne to Zermatt, leaves Visp on the hridle road going up the river, and in a couple of hours arrives at Stalden, where the river divides into two branches, one going to the eastward of a spur of the Monte Rosa mountains, the highest of which rises nearly to the height of fifteen thousand feet, Monte Rosa itself reaching the height of 15,217 feet. This fork or branch is called the Saaser Visp from its chief village of Saas.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of the Pacific
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1410203697
• ISBN 13: 9781410203694
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible