| Learning as Shared Practice in Monastic Communities, 1070-1180 Contributor(s): Long, Micol (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004460411 ISBN-13: 9789004460416 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $147.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2021 |
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| BISAC Categories: - History |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |