IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1232: Learning and Monastic Reform, I: Education and Social Practice
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Religion & Society in the Early & Central Middle Ages (ReSoMA) / Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Gent |
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| Organiser: | Jay Diehl, Department of History, Long Island University, New York |
| Moderator/Chair: | Charlie Rozier, Durham University Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies |
| Respondent: | Mia Münster-Swendsen, Section of History, Roskilde Universitet |
| Paper 1232-a | Beyond Master and Disciple: The Evidence for Learning as Shared Practice in 12th-Century Monastic Letters (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1232-b | The Delightful School of Exile and the Blessed School of the Homeland: Tensions and Synergies in John of Salisbury's Monastic and Intellectual Networks (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1232-c | Writing Novelties without Humility: The Literary Collaborations of Abbot Peter the Venerable and His Secretary Peter of Poitiers in Their Monastic Context (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Scholarship has often treated education as the individual acquisition of a body of written knowledge with the aid of a teacher, an approach that obscures both the role of education in shaping social networks and the role of social life as a form of education. In an attempt to produce a fuller picture of monastic learning in the central Middle Ages, this session will adopt a broad definition of education as more than the acquisition of factual knowledge: the development of belief systems, the cultivation of self-control, the experience of emotion, and the adoption of behavioral patterns will all be taken into account. Oral, visual, and other non-literate ways of learning will be considered alongside literate ones in developing this approach, with learning operating as a dialectic that is productive of and produced by social networks and communities. |