Learning as Shared Practice in Monastic Communities, 1070-1180

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46041-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 58, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

In this study, Micol Long looks at Latin letters written in Western Europe between 1070 and 1180 to reconstruct how monks and nuns learned from each other in a continuous, informal and reciprocal way during their daily communal life. The book challenges the common understanding of education as the transmission of knowledge via a hierarchical master–disciple learning model and shows how knowledge was also shared, exchanged, jointly processed and developed.

Long presents a new and more complicated picture of reciprocal knowledge exchanges, which could be horizontal and bottom-up as well as vertical, and where the same individuals could assume different educational roles depending on the specific circumstances and on the learning contents.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Long, Micol

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The Authors and Their Letters

1.1 The Long Twelfth Century

1.2 Chronological Survey of the Most Important Authors

1.3 Comparative and Methodological Remarks

2 The Context of Shared Learning

2.1 A Time for Learning?

2.2 The Physical Environment

2.3 The Social Environment

3 The Means of Shared Learning

3.1 Social Control and Peer Pressure

3.2 Imitation

3.3 Accusation, Admonition and Correction

3.4 Consolation and Exhortation

3.5 Sharing Ideas, Knowledge and Experience

4 The Effects of Shared Learning

4.1 Effects on the Individual

4.2 Effects on the Community

5 Shared Learning in Female Communities

6 Shared Learning in Other Religious Groups

6.1 Canons

6.2 Anchorites

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Micol Long, Ph.D. (Scuola Normale Superiore – Pisa, 2013) is Senior Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders at Ghent University. She has authored publications on medieval letter-writing and monastic culture and co-edited Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages (2019).