Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Abbreviations IX
5. Map of Places XI
6. PART ONE. GENERAL INTRODUCTION
7. Collections of School Exercises 1
8. Teaching Latin through Sentences 5
9. Schoolroom Practices 10
10. The Nature of the Surviving Collections 15
11. The Origins and Topics of the Exercises 20
12. Religion and Virtue 25
13. Life in School 28
14. The Outside World 35
15. Popular Culture 39
16. Editorial Practice 43
17. PART TWO. TEXTS
18. §1 Bristol and Wiltshire, c.1427 (Bodleian Library, MS Lincoln College Lat. 129) 47
19. §2 Beccles, Suffolk, c.1434 (Cambridge University Library,MS Additional 2830) 70
20. §3 Lincoln or Its Region, c.1425–50 (Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 3 [34]) 100
21. §4 Exeter I, c.1445 (Bodleian Library,MS Rawlinson D. 328) 108
22. §5 Exeter II, c.1450 (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 417/447) 148
23. §6 London, c.1450–70 (British Library, Additional MS 37075) 177
24. §7 Canterbury, c.1480 (British Library,Harley MS 1587) 237
25. §8 Oxford and Winchester, c.1483 (British Library, Additional MS 60577) 257
26. §9 Anwykyll, 1483 (Vulgaria abs Terencio Traducta, ascribed to John Anwykyll) 292
27. §10 Magdalen College,Oxford II, c.1500 (British Library, Arundel MS 249) 346
28. §11 Barlinch, Somerset, c.1500–1520 (Taunton, Somerset Record Office, DD/L/P29/29 and DD/L/Box 154 no. 13) 360
29. §12 Magdalen College,Oxford III, c.1512–27 (British Library, Royal MS 12.B.xx) 378
30. Bibliography 415
31. Index to the Introductions 424
32. Index to the Texts 428