Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages
Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities /
edited by Micol Long, Tjamke Snijders, and Steven Vanderputten.
- 1 online resource (1 EPUB unpaged.)
- Knowledge communities ; 7 .
- Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 7. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Open Access
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.
9789048532919
Learning and scholarship--History--Europe--Medieval, 500-1500.
Education, Medieval.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
LA91 / .H69 2019
370.902
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Open Access
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.
9789048532919
Learning and scholarship--History--Europe--Medieval, 500-1500.
Education, Medieval.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
LA91 / .H69 2019
370.902