Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TeaGre (Teaching Greek in Eleventh-Century Byzantium. Schedography and Its Methods)
Période du rapport: 2022-09-01 au 2024-08-31
The project aimed at producing a modern edition of the earliest schedographical sources (dating back to the eleventh century) and at understanding what language was taught through schedography and to which needs the new method responded. The answer to these challenging questions will disclose how a premodern society develops instruments to process and assimilate change as well as how new teaching methods impact literary production and, more broadly, literacy and language in the long term.
At the same time, I consider the workshop one of the most important achievements of my fellowship as it created a moment of beneficial discussion, where every participant both contributed and learnt. This is extremely important when researching complicated sources such as medieval textbooks and school exercises. There is the need for further gatherings of scholars working on Medieval Greek language and Greek grammatical texts, Greek linguistics and Medieval Greek literature to address together all the issues at stake from different perspectives.