Horizontal learning in the high Middle Ages : peer to peer knowledge transfer in religious communities 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 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. Heloises Echo Hellemans Babette 10. Forms of Transmission of Knowledge at Saint Gall (Ninth to Eleventh Century) DAcunto Nicolangelo 11. Horizontal Learning in Medieval Italian Canonries Şenocak Neslihan 12. Concluding Observations Steckel Sita Bibliography Index