Presentation
Our investigations of monastic and Coptic schools over the last two years have highlighted the phenomenon of "professionalization" of lectures, at levels where we would have expected generalist teaching, free from any technicality induced by specialization. Our investigation of schooling in Late Antiquity should therefore conclude with a final section on vocational education, especially as the subject is ignored by studies on teaching. We'll be looking at the training courses leading to the various professions associated with the written word (stewards, office secretaries, copyists, notaries, etc.), taking advantage of papyrological documentation that is more prolific than was once thought. What methods did they use? How do they relate to the generalist school? Do they follow on from the latter, and in what context? And what do they tell us about Late Antique society? Remarkably unpublished works will shed new light on a subject where everything remains to be done.