Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages: Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities (1) (Knowledge Communities)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2019

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Publisher Quality

Book Size:

302 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781040792810

Related ISBNs:

9781041181002, 9781040779019, 9789462982949, 9781003697480

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

10/02/25

Copyrighted By:

All authors / Taylor & Francis Group

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Education, Language Arts

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Edited by:

Micol Long

Edited by:

Tjamke Snijders

Edited by:

Steven Vanderputten