Learning to Talk Shop
A new account of premodern education that offered non-elite readers lessons in navigating the premodern marketplace
Learning to Talk Shop explores the phrasebooks and guides to conversations that flooded the marketplace in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, making a virtual classroom available to an audience who could not afford or did not have access to formal education. Privileging market sha...
A new account of premodern education that offered non-elite readers lessons in navigating the premodern marketplace
Learning to Talk Shop explores the phrasebooks and guides to conversations that flooded the marketplace in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, making a virtual classroom available to an audience who could not afford or did not have access to formal education. Privileging market sha...
