In:Grammatica, Gramadach and Gramadeg: Vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales
Edited by Deborah Hayden and Paul Russell
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 125] 2016
► pp. 133–148
Teaching between the lines
Grammar and Grammatica in the classroom in Early Medieval Wales
Published online: 31 March 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.125.07rus
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.125.07rus
This chapter takes three glossed texts emanating from early medieval Wales and considers the contribution the glossing makes to the educational utility of the texts. By a happy chance, texts have survived which arguably illustrate three distinct stages in the learning of Latin – from the early manipulation of Latin morphology and vocabulary-learning through the development of a familiarity with Latin verse to sophisticated annotation and commentary.
Keywords: De Raris Fabulis, glosses, Juvencus, Old Welsh, Ovid, stages in medieval education
