IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 516: Handbooks, I: Guidelines for Professional Activities in the Early and High Middle Ages
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | FernUniversität Hagen |
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Organiser: | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen |
Moderator/Chair: | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen |
Paper 516-a | Why Does a Doctor Need a Handbook: Paulos of Aigina, 7th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Education, Language and Literature - Greek, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Paper 516-b | Wipo's Gesta Chuonradi II imperatoris (11th Century) as a Handbook for the Court's Chaplains (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Literacy and Orality, Political Thought, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Paper 516-c | 'Handbooks' for Becoming a Scholar: Distinctions of Proficiency in French Scientific Communities (12th Century) (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Abstract | Rules in the broad sense of guidelines or even directives for the best ways of dealing with special demands can be found in very different textual contexts in the Middle Ages. The session brings together -a: an early collection of rules for doctors, -b: a text frequently misread as historiography, but now interpreted as directive for chaplains of the imperial court, and -c: ideas for professionalization of 12th century scholars. |