Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 235 pages)
ISBN:
110827160X
,
9781108271608
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 102
Content:
"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"--
Content:
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Letters; Bede on Language; Muteness and Liberation in the Ecclesiastical History; Language and Liberation; Chapter 2 Prayer; Solomon and Saturn I; The Pater Noster and Knowledge; Saturn's Desire; Learning to Read; Chapter 3 Violence; Reading Bata in Context; Grammar, Suffering, and Ælfric’s Colloquy; Bata's Colloquies and the Pedagogy of Pain; Classroom Performance; The Violent Logic of Discipline.
Content:
Chapter 4 RecollectionIntroduction; Teaching in Andreas; Learning by Remembering; Cynewulf's Elene; Anamnesis and Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy; A Rhetoric of Riddling; Chapter 5 Desire; Ideas of Teaching in the Life of St Mary of Egypt; Mary of Egypt's Pedagogy; The Danger of Teaching; Conclusion; Note; Introduction; 1. Letters; 2. Prayer; 3. Violence; 4. Recollection; 5. Desire; Conclusion; Bibliography; Reference Works; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
9781108242103
Additional Edition:
1108242103
Additional Edition:
1108403360
Additional Edition:
9781108403368
Additional Edition:
9781108416863
Additional Edition:
1108416861
Additional Edition:
9781108403368
Additional Edition:
9781108416863
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dumitrescu, Irina Experience of education in Anglo-Saxon literature Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018
Language:
English
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