IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 110: The Social Practices of Monastic Learning
Monday 9 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Jay Diehl, Department of History, Long Island University, New York |
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Moderator/Chair: | Mia Münster-Swendsen, Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, Københavns Universitet |
Paper 110-a | The Social Role of History in the Calendar Culture of 12th-Century Durham: The Case of Durham Cathedral Library, MS Hunter 100 (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 110-b | A Matter of Style: Scribal Education, Continuity, and Discontinuity in High Medieval Monastic Scriptoria from the Southern Low Countries (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
Paper 110-c | Scholarship and Social Formation: Renier of St Laurent's De Claris Scriptoribus (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism |
Abstract | Current scholarship on monastic learning has increasingly turned away from the philosophical and theological ideas that defined monastic thought and toward the pedagogical methods and the scholastic organization within which such ideas were formulated. In so doing, scholars have begun to appreciate the extent to which social and institutional structures played key roles in shaping monastic thought. However, schools were far from the only type of social practice within which monastic learning took place. This panel will explore the variety of social practices and networks that gave form and meaning to monastic culture during the central Middle Ages and so expand the contexts for understanding the structure of monastic thought. |