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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822078003321

Autore

Copeland Rita

Titolo

Pedagogy, intellectuals, and dissent in the later Middle Ages : Lollardy and ideas of learning / / Rita Copeland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-11742-9

1-280-15451-9

0-511-11773-6

0-511-04050-4

0-511-15331-7

0-511-48326-0

0-511-32786-2

0-511-04823-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; ; 44

Disciplina

370/.942

Soggetti

Education, Medieval - Great Britain

Reformation - Early movements

Lollards

Great Britain Intellectual life 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

General introduction: pedagogy and intellectuals -- pt. 1. From pedagogies to hermeneutics: childhood, the literal sense, and the heretical classroom. 1. Revaluing the literal sense from antiquity to the Middle Ages. 2. Lollardy and the politics of the literal sense -- pt. 2. Violent representations: intellectuals and prison writing. 3. Richard Wyche and the public record. 4. William Thorpe and the historical record.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focusing on the medieval English heresy known as Lollardy, Rita Copeland places heretical and orthodox attitudes to learning in a long historical perspective that reaches back to antiquity. She shows how educational ideologies of ancient lineage left their



imprint on the most sharply politicized categories of late medieval culture, and how radical teachers transformed inherited ideas about classrooms and pedagogy as they brought their teaching to adult learners. The pedagogical imperatives of Lollard dissent were also embodied in the work of certain public figures, intellectuals whose dissident careers transformed the social category of the medieval intellectual. Looking closely at the prison narratives of two Lollard preachers, Copeland shows how their writings could serve as examples for their fellow dissidents and forge a new rapport between academic and non-academic communities.