Title of material

Colloquy (School Exercise/Dialogue about Professions)

Author(s)

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.

STARS Citation

"Colloquy (School Exercise/Dialogue about Professions)" (2020). All OER History Primary Sources. 65.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/oerhistory-all/65