Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages

Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages
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ISBN-10 : 9462982945
ISBN-13 : 9789462982949
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Synopsis Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages by : Micol Long

Cohabiting peers learned from one another in medieval religious communities (11th-12th century), not top-down but peer-to-peer. This volume focuses on the way in which day-to-day interpersonal exchanges of knowledge functioned in practice.

Standardization in the Middle Ages

Standardization in the Middle Ages
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9783110773712
ISBN-13 : 3110773716
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Synopsis Standardization in the Middle Ages by : Line Cecilie Engh

We live in a world riven through with standards. To understand more of their deep, rich past is to understand ourselves better. The two volumes, Standardization in the Middle Ages. Volume 1: The North and Standardization in the Middle Ages. Volume 2: Europe, turn to the Middle Ages to give a deeper understanding of the medieval ideas and practices that produced--and were produced by--standards and standardization. At first glance, the Middle Ages might appear an unlikely place to look for standardization. The editors argue that, on the contrary, generating predictability is a precondition for meaningful cultural interaction in any historical period and that we may look to the Middle Ages to learn more about the historical, social, and cognitive processes of standardization. This multidisciplinary venture, which includes medievalists from the fields of history, intellectual history, art history, philology, numismatics, and more, as well as scholars of cognitive science, informatics, and anthropology, interrogates how medieval people and groups envisioned and enforced predictability, uniformity, and order, and how they attempted to obtain and maintain standards across vast distances and heterogeneous social and cultural structures.

Social and Intellectual Networking in the Early Middle Ages

Social and Intellectual Networking in the Early Middle Ages
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Publisher : punctum books
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9781685710545
ISBN-13 : 1685710549
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Synopsis Social and Intellectual Networking in the Early Middle Ages by : Michael J. Kelly

Social and Intellectual Networking in the Early Middle Ages seeks to expand our understanding of early medieval connectivity by interrogating social and intellectual collaborations, competitions, and communications among persons, places, things, and ideas in the European and Mediterranean West during the second half of the first millennium CE. In so doing, its contributors explore the existence, performance, and sustainability of diverse political, scholarly, ecclesiastical, and material networks via manuscripts, artifacts, and theories framed by two broad interpretive categories. The first examines networks of scholars, writers, and the social and political histories related to their productions. The second imagines the transmission of "knowledge" as information, rhetoric, object, and epistemic grounding. In addition, the book rigorously investigates the theoretical possibilities and problems of researching early medieval networks, attempts to re-construct historical networks, and critically analyzes the concept of "information."

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of William the Conqueror

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of William the Conqueror
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 399
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ISBN-10 : 9781108482974
ISBN-13 : 110848297X
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Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Age of William the Conqueror by : Benjamin Pohl

Offers a comparative cultural history of north-western Europe in the crucial period of the eleventh century.

Learning as Shared Practice in Monastic Communities, 1070-1180

Learning as Shared Practice in Monastic Communities, 1070-1180
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9789004466494
ISBN-13 : 9004466495
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Synopsis Learning as Shared Practice in Monastic Communities, 1070-1180 by : Micol Long

In this study, Micol Long looks at Latin letters written in Western Europe between 1070 and 1180 to reconstruct how monks and nuns learned from each other in a continuous, informal and reciprocal way during their daily communal life.

Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600)

Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600)
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 432
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ISBN-10 : 9789004520158
ISBN-13 : 9004520155
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Synopsis Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600) by : Anna Dlabačová

'The Open Access publishing costs of this volume were covered by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Veni-project “Leaving a Lasting Impression. The Impact of Incunabula on Late Medieval Spirituality, Religious Practice and Visual Culture in the Low Countries” (grant number 275-30-036).' This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the contributors investigate how book producers conceived of their target audiences and how these vernacular books were designed and used. Three sections highlight connections between vernacularity and materiality from distinct perspectives: real and imagined readers, mobility of texts and images, and intermediality. The volume brings contributions on different regions, languages, and book types into dialogue. Contributors include Heather Bamford, Tillmann Taape, Stefan Matter, Suzan Folkerts, Karolina Mroziewicz, Martha W. Driver, Alexa Sand, Elisabeth de Bruijn, Katell Lavéant, Margriet Hoogvliet, and Walter S. Melion.

Essays on Lay and Ecclesiastical Communities in and Around the Medieval Urban Parish

Essays on Lay and Ecclesiastical Communities in and Around the Medieval Urban Parish
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Publisher : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 9789892625720
ISBN-13 : 9892625722
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Synopsis Essays on Lay and Ecclesiastical Communities in and Around the Medieval Urban Parish by : Maria Amélia Campos

This book gives a definite contribution to a wide-ranging reflection on the medieval parish and the secular clergy, considered within a long-term chronological framework and a wide geographical scope that allows the analysis and confrontation of case studies from the Iberian kingdoms, Northern France, Italian Piedmont, Lombardy, Flanders, Transylvania, and North of the Holy Roman Empire. The chapters published in this book tells of dynamics of social, religious, and cultural exclusion and inclusion within lay communities, of the constitution of family elites and parish confraternities; it shows the composition and the recruitment rationales of the parish clergy and of some ecclesiastical chapters with a duty of Cura animarum; it examines the relations of the churches and parochial clergy with more prominent – secular and regular – ecclesiastical institutions in the context of the establishment and exercise of the right of patronage; finally, it explores the role of the secular clergy in the application of justice, based on the characterization of their cultural and juridical formation.

The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches and Chapels

The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches and Chapels
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Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9781803275765
ISBN-13 : 1803275766
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Synopsis The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches and Chapels by : Geoffrey Sedlezky

This book analyses the positions of external church doorways in England to investigate the significance that positioning had for the function and design of these buildings. The author proposes a link between the design and function of parochial churches and chapels with the number and attributes of their doorways.

Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century

Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 393
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ISBN-10 : 9781512823080
ISBN-13 : 1512823082
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Synopsis Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century by : Margot E. Fassler

In Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century, Margot E. Fassler takes readers into the rich, complex world of Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias (meaning “Know the ways”) to explore how medieval thinkers understood and imagined the universe. Hildegard, renowned for her contributions to theology, music, literature, and art, developed unique methods for integrating these forms of thought and expression into a complete vision of the cosmos and of the human journey. Scivias was Hildegard’s first major theological work and the only one of her writings that was both illuminated and copied by scribes from her monastery during her lifetime. It contains not just religious visions and theological commentary, but also a shortened version of Hildegard’s play Ordo virtutum (“Play of the virtues”), plus the texts of fourteen musical compositions. These elements of Scivias, Fassler contends, form a coherent whole demonstrating how Hildegard used theology and the liturgical arts to lead and to teach the nuns of her community. Hildegard’s visual and sonic images unfold slowly and deliberately, opening up varied paths of knowing. Hildegard and her nuns adapted forms of singing that they believed to be crucial to the reform of the Church in their day and central to the ongoing turning of the heavens and to the nature of time itself. Hildegard’s vision of the universe is a “Cosmic Egg,” as described in Scivias, filled with strife and striving, and at its center unfolds the epic drama of every human soul, embodied through sound and singing. Though Hildegard’s view of the cosmos is far removed from modern understanding, Fassler’s analysis reveals how this dynamic cosmological framework from the Middle Ages resonates with contemporary thinking in surprising ways, and underscores the vitality of the arts as embodied modes of theological expression and knowledge.

Women and Medieval Literary Culture

Women and Medieval Literary Culture
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 880
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ISBN-10 : 9781108876919
ISBN-13 : 1108876919
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Synopsis Women and Medieval Literary Culture by : Corinne Saunders

Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic literary culture, it places British writing in wider European contexts while also considering more distant influences such as Arabic. Essays span topics including book production and authorship; reception; linguistic, literary, and cultural contexts and influences; women's education and spheres of knowledge; women as writers, scribes and translators; women as patrons, readers and book owners; and women as subjects. Reflecting recent trends in scholarship, the volume spans the early Middle Ages through to the eve of the Reformation and emphasises the multilingual, multicultural and international contexts of women's literary culture.