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Learning as shared practice in monastic communities, 1070-1180 / by Micol Long.

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"In this study, Micol Long looks at Latin letters written in Western Europe between 1070 and 1180 to reconstruct how monks and nuns learned from each other in a continuous, informal and reciprocal way during their daily communal life. The book challenges the common understanding of education as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Long, Micol (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Subjects:
Monastic and religious life > Europe, Western > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Learning and scholarship > History > Medieval, 500-1500.
Latin letters, Medieval and modern > Europe, Western > History and criticism.
Knowledge, Theory of > Europe, Western > History.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Latin letters, Medieval and modern.
Learning and scholarship > Medieval.
Monastic and religious life > Middle Ages.
Western Europe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The authors and their letters
  • The context of shared learning
  • The means of shared learning
  • The effects of shared learning
  • Shared learning in female communities
  • Shared learning in other religious groups.

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