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Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages : Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities

By Steven Vanderputten , Tjamke Snijders , Micol Long

Book information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9462982945, 9789462982949
Google Books ID
Cq_4wgEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3008805 bytes)
Series
Knowledge Communities
Pages
302\303
Topic
History
Time added
2020-12-20 23:52:48

Description

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.

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