R. TAIT MCKENZIE, Editor.
CONTENTS.
PART I. EUROPE.
CHAPTER I.
THE GREEKS.
Two Types of Education, Spartan and Athenian 17
Physical Education at Sparta 18
Physical Education at Athens 20
The National Festivals 24
CHAPTER II.
THE ROMANS.
The Roman Conception of Education 28
Military Training and Discipline 29
The Introduction of Greek Gymnastics 31
The Exercises of the Public Baths 32
The Public Spectacles of the Amphitheater and the Circus 33
CHAPTER III.
THE TEUTONIC INVADERS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 34
CHAPTER IV.
ASCETICISM IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Causes 37
Nature of the Period 38
Effects 39
CHAPTER V.
MONASTERY AND CATHEDRAL SCHOOLS. 41
CHAPTER VI.
CHIVALRY. 43
CHAPTER VII.
THE UNIVERSITIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 47
CHAPTER VIII.
THE PERIOD OF THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION.
Changes in Education—The Humanists 49
Vittorino da Feltre 49
Physical Training Advocated by Writers on Education:
In Italy—Cardano, Mercurialis, etc. 50
Luther, Zwingli, Camerarius, Comenius 53
The Spanish Scholar Vives 54
In France—Rabelais and Montaigne 54
In England—Elyot, Mulcaster, Milton 57