Lectures on Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Class Notse of a Sixteenth-Century Paris Schoolboy

Abstract

The history of education, of its changing goals and methods, materials and social contexts, offers a fascinating study at the cross-section of intellectual, social and institutional history. In setting the context for and then analyzing a unique source recently acquired by the Rare Books Division of the Princeton University Library, I hope to recapture some aspects of the experience of a Paris schoolboy in 1570-1, as he took notes in class on his teacher's discussion of Ovid's Metamorphoses, book I.