Educating the Catholic People: Religious Orders and Their Schools in Early Modern Italy (1500-1800)

by Universidade de Lisboa David Salomoni

In Educating the Catholic People, David Salomoni reconstructs the complex educational landscape that arose in sixteenth-century Italy and lasted until the French Revolution. Over three centuries, various religious orders, both male and female, took on the educational needs of cities and states on the Italian peninsula, renewing the traditional humanist pedagogy. Historians, however, have not attempted to produce a synthesis on this topic, focusing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004436464
• ISBN13: 9789004436466
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"