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Commonplacing was a widely practiced method for structuring knowledge and acquiring the skills of expression in the early modern period. In his famous De duplici copia, Erasmus promoted students` creation of handwritten commonplace books to aid in their assimilation of vocabulary, idioms (copia verborum), and factual knowledge (copia rerum). The protestant gymnasium of Strasbourg founded by Sturm had a particularly strong theoretical and practical tradition of commonplacing. According to the Strasbourg tradition, commonplacing could help students draw a universal map for knowing things divine, natural, and human. In comparison to printed commonplace books or . . .
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