Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages
Subtitle: Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9789048532919
Subjects: Social & cultural history; Medieval history
Description: 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.
Notes: English.