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Record Nr.

UNISA996309079803316

Autore

Long Micol

Titolo

Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages : Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities / / edited by Micol Long, Tjamke Snijders, and Steven Vanderputten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2019

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

90-485-3291-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Knowledge communities ; ; 7

Disciplina

370.902

Soggetti

Learning and scholarship - Europe - History - Medieval, 500-1500

Education, Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction / Long, Micol / Vanderputten, Steven -- 2. Communal Learning and Communal Identities in Medieval Studies / Snijders, Tjamke -- 3. Condiscipuli Sumus / Long, Micol -- 4. Ut Fiat Aequalitas / Giraud, Cédric -- 5. Truth as Teaching / Diehl, Jay -- 6. Making Space for Learning in the Miracle Stories of Peter the Venerable / Saurette, Marc -- 7. Teaching through Architecture / Patrick Kinsella, Karl -- 8. Men and Women in the Life of the Schools / Jaeger, C. Stephen -- 9. Heloise's Echo / Hellemans, Babette -- 10. Forms of Transmission of Knowledge at Saint Gall (Ninth to Eleventh Century) / D'Acunto, Nicolangelo -- 11. Horizontal Learning in Medieval Italian Canonries / Şenocak, Neslihan -- 12. Concluding Observations / Steckel, Sita -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The history of medieval learning has traditionally been studied as a vertical transmission of knowledge from a master to one or several disciples. *Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages: Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities* centres on the ways in which cohabiting peers learned and taught one another in a dialectical process - how they acquired knowledge and skills, but also how they



developed concepts, beliefs, and adapted their behaviour to suit the group: everything that could mold a person into an efficient member of the community. This process of 'horizontal learning' emerges as an important aspect of the medieval learning experience. Progressing beyond the view that high medieval religious communities were closed, homogeneous, and fairly stable social groups, the essays in this volume understand communities as the product of a continuous process of education and integration of new members. The authors explore how group members learned from one another, and what this teaches us about learning within the context of a high medieval community.