Confabulations: Cologne life and humanism in Hermann Schotten's Confabulationes Tironum Litterariorum (Cologne, 1525)
By Peter Macardle
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- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-8186-6
- Pages: 260
- Price: £20.00
- Published Date: November 2009
- Series: Durham Modern Languages Series
Description
This study, a companion to Peter Macardle's edition of the Confabulationes, examines the ways in which the colloquies relate to their Cologne background, to the major contemporary colloquy collections (particularly Erasmus's Colloquia and Mosellanus's Paedologia), 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.
Contents
Non-bibliographic abbreviations
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Through a glass darkly: Hermann Schotten's career
2. Space, time and culture: the *Confabulationes* and early modern Cologne
3. The *Confabulationes* and other humanist colloquy collections
4. Schotten's Latinity
5. Visible means of support? Traces of Schotten's networks
Conclusions
Select bibliography
Author
Peter Macardle is Lecturer in German in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University