Horizontal learning in the High Middle Ages : peer-to-peer knowledge transfer in religious communities / edited by Micol Long, Tjamke Snijders, and Steven Vanderputten.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The history of medieval learning has been studied both as a vertical master-student phenomenon, and as part of a broad 'educational environment'. This volume centers 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 behavior 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.

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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction / Long, Micol / Vanderputten, Steven -- 2. Communal Learning and Communal Identities in Medieval Studies / Snijders, Tjamke -- 3. Condiscipuli Sumus / Long, Micol -- 4. Ut Fiat Aequalitas / Giraud, Cédric -- 5. Truth as Teaching / Diehl, Jay -- 6. Making Space for Learning in the Miracle Stories of Peter the Venerable / Saurette, Marc -- 7. Teaching through Architecture / Patrick Kinsella, Karl -- 8. Men and Women in the Life of the Schools / Jaeger, C. Stephen -- 9. Heloise's Echo / Hellemans, Babette -- 10. Forms of Transmission of Knowledge at Saint Gall (Ninth to Eleventh Century) / D'Acunto, Nicolangelo -- 11. Horizontal Learning in Medieval Italian Canonries / Şenocak, Neslihan -- 12. Concluding Observations / Steckel, Sita -- Bibliography -- Index

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