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Learning as shared practice in monastic communities, 1070-1180 / by Micol Long.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Long, Micol, author.
- Series:
- Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; v. 58.
- Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; volume 58
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monastic and religious life--Europe, Western--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Monastic and religious life.
- Learning and scholarship--History--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Learning and scholarship.
- History.
- Latin letters, Medieval and modern--Europe, Western--History and criticism.
- Latin letters, Medieval and modern.
- Knowledge, Theory of--Europe, Western--History.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Learning and scholarship--Medieval.
- Monastic and religious life--Middle Ages.
- Western Europe.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 268 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The authors and their letters
- The context of shared learning
- The means of shared learning
- The effects of shared learning
- Shared learning in female communities
- Shared learning in other religious groups.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Long, Micol. Learning as shared practice in monastic communities, 1070-1180
- ISBN:
- 9789004460416
- 9004460411
- OCLC:
- 1246626811
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