Preface

pp.：  11 – 24

Abbreviations

pp.：  25 – 28

Editorial note regarding citations from manuscripts

pp.：  29 – 30

Chapter One Literacy in Florence, 1427

pp.：  31 – 72

Conclusion

pp.：  72 – 72

Chapter Two The school curriculum in Florentine Tuscany and in the city of Florence

pp.：  73 – 202

The shape of the curriculum

pp.：  74 – 90

Elementary reading

pp.：  74 – 75

Latin composition

pp.：  76 – 77

Latin literature

pp.：  78 – 79

Stylistics and rhetoric

pp.：  80 – 81

Abacus

pp.：  82 – 83

Writing

pp.：  84 – 90

The school curriculum in Florentine Tuscany outside Florence

pp.：  91 – 150

Prato

pp.：  91 – 96

Arezzo

pp.：  97 – 108

Colle Valdelsa

pp.：  109 – 112

Volterra

pp.：  113 – 116

Pisa

pp.：  117 – 126

San Gimignano

pp.：  127 – 132

Poggibonsi

pp.：  133 – 133

Poppi

pp.：  134 – 134

Pescia

pp.：  135 – 136

Pistoia

pp.：  137 – 141

Sansepolcro

pp.：  142 – 145

San Miniato and Fucecchio

pp.：  146 – 147

Other towns in Florentine Tuscany

pp.：  148 – 150

The school curriculum in the city of Florence

pp.：  151 – 193

Pre-school

pp.：  151 – 151

The reading curriculum in Florence

pp.：  152 – 155

The secondary theoretical grammar syllabus in Florence

pp.：  156 – 173

The fourteenth century

pp.：  156 – 158

1400–1450

pp.：  159 – 165

1450–1470

pp.：  166 – 169

1470–1500

pp.：  170 – 173

The auctores minores in Florence

pp.：  174 – 180

The fourteenth century

pp.：  175 – 175

The fifteenth century

pp.：  176 – 180

Boethius in Florentine schools

pp.：  181 – 183

The auctores maiores in Florence

pp.：  184 – 189

Rhetoric and stylistics in Florence

pp.：  190 – 191

Abacus and writing in Florence

pp.：  192 – 193

Latin drama in Florence

pp.：  194 – 193

Humanism at school in Florence and Florentine Tuscany: a comparison

pp.：  194 – 202

Chapter Three The decline of church education and the rise of lay schools in Tuscany

pp.：  203 – 274

Church schools before 1200

pp.：  203 – 210

The decline of ecclesiastical education in Tuscany during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

pp.：  211 – 219

The rise of lay teachers and schools in Tuscany

pp.：  220 – 235

Notaries

pp.：  221 – 224

Family men

pp.：  225 – 226

Citizens

pp.：  227 – 228

Military service

pp.：  229 – 229

Untitled teachers

pp.：  230 – 232

Women

pp.：  233 – 232

Schools, teachers and lay institutions: universities and guilds

pp.：  233 – 235

Private teachers in Tuscany outside Florence in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

pp.：  236 – 239

Private teachers in Florence during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

pp.：  240 – 270

Elementary teachers of reading and/or writing

pp.：  241 – 243

Private grammar teachers

pp.：  244 – 250

Private tutors

pp.：  251 – 255

Private abacus teachers and schools in Florence during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

pp.：  256 – 270

Conclusion

pp.：  271 – 274

Chapter Four The rise of communal schools in Florentine Tuscany: 1262 to 1400

pp.：  275 – 356

Communal subsidies for rent

pp.：  275 – 287

San Gimignano

pp.：  275 – 282

Fucecchio

pp.：  283 – 285

Pistoia, San Miniato, Castiglion Fiorentino, Castelfranco di Sotto, Arezzo

pp.：  286 – 287

Communal salaries

pp.：  288 – 307

Grammar teachers

pp.：  288 – 297

Elementary teachers

pp.：  298 – 303

Abacus teachers

pp.：  304 – 307

Shortage of teachers outside Florence

pp.：  308 – 311

Monetary inducements for teachers outside Florence

pp.：  312 – 318

Rising communal salaries for grammar teachers

pp.：  319 – 324

Aims of communal education

pp.：  325 – 335

Quality assurance and control in communal teaching

pp.：  336 – 343

Florence and Florentine Tuscany in the fourteenth century: an educational comparison

pp.：  344 – 353

Conclusion

pp.：  354 – 356

Chapter Five Teachers, schools and pupils in Florence during the fifteenth century

pp.：  357 – 498

Elementary teachers and schools of reading (and writing)

pp.：  357 – 391

Elementary teachers before 1427

pp.：  359 – 360

Elementary teachers in the 1427 Catasto

pp.：  361 – 367

Elementary teachers at or near Orsanmichele in the earlier fifteenth century

pp.：  368 – 368

Elementary teachers in the mid-fifteenth century

pp.：  369 – 377

Elementary teachers in the later fifteenth century

pp.：  378 – 391

Abacus teachers and schools

pp.：  392 – 414

Grammar (Latin) teachers and schools

pp.：  415 – 452

Public grammar teachers

pp.：  415 – 430

Private grammar teachers

pp.：  431 – 452

Private tutors in fifteenth-century Florence

pp.：  453 – 475

Patterns of education in fifteenth-century Florence

pp.：  476 – 498

The earlier fifteenth century

pp.：  476 – 486

The mid-fifteenth century

pp.：  487 – 491

The late fifteenth century

pp.：  492 – 498

Appendix One Education in the Florentine Catasto, 1427

pp.：  499 – 558

Appendix Two Education in the Florentine Catasto, 1458

pp.：  559 – 566

Appendix Three Communal schoolteachers in Florence up to 1500

pp.：  567 – 574

Appendix Four Communal schoolteachers in Florentine Tuscany (and Siena) up to 1400

pp.：  575 – 642

Appendix Five Education in unpublished Florentine Ricordanze (up to 1507)

pp.：  643 – 754

Appendix Six Education in the matriculation records of the Florentine Company of the Purification

pp.：  755 – 766

Appendix Seven Additional documents on education in Arezzo discovered since 1996

pp.：  767 – 786

Appendix Eight Documents on education in Sansepolcro up to 1400

pp.：  787 – 808

Bibliography

pp.：  809 – 820

Index of names

pp.：  821 – 870