The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 28, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781108416863
Description: "Anglo-Saxons valued education yet understood how precarious it could be, alternately bolstered and undermined by fear, desire, and memory. They praised their teachers in official writing, but composed and translated scenes of instruction that revealed the emotional and cognitive complexity of learning. Irina Dumitrescu explores how early medieval writers used fictional representations of education to explore the relationship between teacher and student. These texts hint at the challenges of teaching and learning: curiosity, pride, forgetfulness, inattention, and despair. Still, these difficulties are understood to be part of the dynamic process of pedagogy, not simply a sign of its failure. The book demonstrates the enduring concern of Anglo-Saxon authors with learning throughout Old English and Latin poems, hagiographies, histories, and schoolbooks"--
Notes: Source title: The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)