ABSTRACT
In the Middle Ages the method of teaching Latin seems to have been : ‘The lessons were given by word of mouth….They had roughly made tablets (tabulae) on which they wrote down the lesson in grammar, or the portion of vocabulary from the dictation of the master, and, after committing it to memory, erased the writing, to make room for another 1 ,’ For the whole of his knowledge the boy was dependent on his master. A knowledge of the grammar, together with glossaries, glosses and vocabulary, seem to have constituted the chief accomplishments of the masters themselves, and if there was any Latin composition attempted by masters, it was quite as likely to have been verse as prose.
