Author: RUYS,Juanita Feros ed.
Title: What Nature Does Not Teach: Didactic Literature in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods.
Description: Brepols Publishers, 2008. Hardcover. Very good condition. No dj. "This interdisciplinary volume takes as its subject the multi-faceted genre of didactic literature (the literature of instruction) which constituted the cornerstone of literary enterprise and social control in medieval and early modern Europe." Includes papers on The Pseudo-Aristotelian Secret of Secrets as a Didactic Text, Vindicating Vulcan: Renaissance Manuals of Mining and Metallurgy, Women Teachers in Early Byzantine Hagiography, 'The world must be peopled': Children and Their Context in Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan Drama and The Instruction of a Christian Woman by Juan Luis Vives, Astronomy and Philosophical Orientation in Classical and Renaissance Didactic Poetry etc. 527pp. ISBN-13: 9782503525969.

Keywords: europe social sociology history european medieval middle ages didactic literature literary renaissance