While the role of monastic education has been studied in great detail in regard to male practices, this book examines the differences between the monastic formation and education of men and of women in Western Europe from the eighth to the sixteenth century. Fourteen chapters, written by well-known scholars, consider monastic education and practices in the geographical areas of England, France, Germany and the Low Countries. Using attitudes toward education and actual educational theories, the authors explore issues such as the use of music and physical training in education to explore new realms of the discipline.
Author(s): George Ferzoco, Carolyn Muessig
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 288
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 15
1 The changing face of tradition: monastic education in the Middle Ages......Page 18
2 Training for the liturgy as a form of monastic education......Page 24
3 Besides the book: using the body to mould the mind — Cluny in the tenth and eleventh centuries......Page 38
4 A medieval novice's formation: reflection on a fifteenth-century manuscript at Downside Abbey......Page 52
5 The scope of learning within the cloisters of the English cathedral priories in the later Middle Ages......Page 58
6 University monks in late medieval England......Page 73
7 Hildegard of Bingen's teaching in her Expositiones evangeliorum and Ordo virtutum......Page 89
8 Learning and mentoring in the twelfth century: Hildegard of Bingen and Herrad of Landsberg......Page 104
9 Educating Heloise......Page 122
10 The role of images in monastic education: the evidence from wall painting in late medieval England......Page 134
11 Ghostly mentor, teacher of mysteries: Bartholomew, Guthlac and the Apostle's cult in early medieval England......Page 153
12 'Life, learning and wisdom': the forms and functions of beguine education......Page 170
13 Franciscan educational perspectives: reworking monastic traditions......Page 185
14 Monastic educational culture revisited: the witness of Zwiefalten and the Hirsau reform......Page 199
Abbreviations......Page 215
Bibliography......Page 216
B......Page 248
C......Page 249
H......Page 250
L......Page 251
P......Page 252
V......Page 253
Z......Page 254
