The history of medieval learning has traditionally been studied as a vertical transmission of knowledge from a master to one or several disciples. *Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages: Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities* centres 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 behaviour 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. Progressing beyond the view that high medieval religious communities were closed, homogeneous, and fairly stable social groups, the essays in this volume understand communities as the product of a continuous process of education and integration of new members. The authors explore how group members learned from one another, and what this teaches us about learning within the context of a high medieval community.
Author(s): Tjamke Snijders, Micol Long, Steven Vanderputten
Series: Knowledge Communities
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 302
City: Amsterdam
Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Micol Long and Steven Vanderputten
2. Communal Learning and Communal Identities in Medieval Studies
Consensus, Conflict, and the Community of Practice
Tjamke Snijders
3. Condiscipuli Sumus
The Roots of Horizontal Learning in Monastic Culture
Micol Long
4. Ut Fiat Aequalitas
Spiritual Training of the Inner Man in the Twelfth-Century Cloister
Cédric Giraud
5. Truth as Teaching
Lying and the Ethics of Learning in Twelfth-Century Monastic Culture
Jay Diehl
6. Making Space for Learning in the Miracle Stories of Peter the Venerable
Marc Saurette
7. Teaching through Architecture
Honorius Augustodunensis and the Medieval Church
Karl Patrick Kinsella
8. Men and Women in the Life of the Schools
In the Classroom of Hermann of Reichenau
C. Stephen Jaeger
9. Heloise’s Echo
The Anthropology of a Twelfth-Century Horizontal Knowledge Landscape
Babette Hellemans
10. Forms of Transmission of Knowledge at Saint Gall (Ninth to Eleventh Century)
Nicolangelo D’Acunto
11. Horizontal Learning in Medieval Italian Canonries
Neslihan Şenocak
12. Concluding Observations
Horizontal, Hierarchical, and Community-Oriented Learning in a Wider Perspective
Sita Steckel
Bibliography
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