Confabulations: Cologne Life and Humanism in Hermann Schotten's Confabulations Tironum Litterariorum (Cologne, 1525)

ISBN-10: 0907310672
ISBN-13: 9780907310679
Series: Confabulations
Category: College and school drama, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Pages: 251
Language: English
Published: 2007
Publisher: Durham Modern Languages
Author: Peter Macardle

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.