Education in religious contexts of late antiquity / Monika Amsler

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amsler, Monika, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in religion in late antiquity, 2633-8602

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and education--History--To 1500.

Church and education.

Education, Medieval.

Jews--Education--History--To 1500.

Jews.

Jews--Education.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"This Element describes the most common educational processes of religious communities in the late antique period. Through a combination of historical analysis and examples, it provides an overview of the methods used to teach the alphabet and basic rhetoric, which were central to Jewish and Christian – including Manichaean – knowledge production. It also explains how this knowledge was disseminated through liturgy. Rather than viewing the material remains of these communities in isolation, this Element examines them together, overcoming the usual scholarly focus on differences between religious communities and between religious and secular education. Instead, it highlights the dynamics created by mutual exchange and ambition. Since evidence of education is generally scarce, the synopsis demonstrates that, for example, while one religious community may have a surviving textbook with exercises, another community may only have the final products of those exercises"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

The stuff of education

First steps

Learning as a community

Individual excellence

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed April 10, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Amsler, Monika Education in religious contexts of late antiquity

ISBN:

9781009337632

1009337637

OCLC:

1573659169

Publisher Number:

CIPO000339067

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license