Colloquy (School Exercise/Dialogue about Professions)

    Course

    EUH2000; WOH2012

    Date (Original)

    10th/11th century

    Location

    Kingdom of England

    Keywords

    Social History; Economic History; Intellectual History

    Description

    This work was originally a language-learning exercise: students of Abbot Ælfric would use a dialogue about the different professions to expand their Latin vocabulary and grammar. This exercise mentions a number of different occupations, from the enslaved ploughman to the hunter to the blacksmith to the baker and also includes some political theory, as the different characters debate whose job is the most important.

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