Learning as shared practice in monastic communities, 1070-1180 / Micol Long.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long, Micol, author.

Series:

Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; Volume 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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 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

Chapter 2 The Context of Shared Learning

2.1 A Time for Learning?

2.2 The Physical Environment

2.3 The Social Environment

Chapter 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

Chapter 4 The Effects of Shared Learning

4.1 Effects on the Individual

4.2 Effects on the Community

Chapter 5 Shared Learning in Female Communities

Chapter 6 Shared Learning in Other Religious Groups

6.1 Canons

6.2 Anchorites

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-46649-5

OCLC:

1263247848

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004466494 DOI