Medieval Monastic Education

by Ferzoco, George; Muessig, Carolyn

• ISBN13: 9780718502461
• ISBN10: 0718502469
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-21
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

While the role of monastic education has been studied in great detail in regard to male practices, this book examines the differences between the monastic formation and education of men and of women in Western Europe from the eighth to the sixteenth century. Fourteen chapters, written by well-known scholars, consider monastic education and practices in the geographical areas of England, France, Germany and the Low Countries. Using attitudes toward education and actual educational theories, the authors explore issues such as the use of music and physical training in education to explore new realms of the discipline.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vii
Contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xiv
The changing face of tradition: monastic education in the Middle Ages	1	(6)
George Ferzoco
Training for the liturgy as a form of monastic education	7	(14)
Susan Boynton
Besides the book: using the body to mould the mind -- Cluny in the tenth and eleventh centuries	21	(14)
Isabelle Cochelin
A medieval novice's formation: reflection on a fifteenth-century manuscript at Downside Abbey	35	(6)
Aidan Bellenger
The scope of learning within the cloisters of the English cathedral priories in the later Middle Ages	41	(15)
Joan Greatrex
University monks in late medieval England	56	(16)
James G. Clark
Hildegard of Bingen's teaching in her Expositiones evangeliorum and Ordo virtutum	72	(15)
Beverly Mayne Kienzle
Learning and mentoring in the twelfth century: Hildegard of Bingen and Herrad of Landsberg	87	(18)
Carolyn Muessig
Educating Heloise	105	(12)
W. G. East
The role of images in monastic education: the evidence from wall painting in late medieval England	117	(19)
Miriam Gill
Ghostly mentor, teacher of mysteries: Bartholomew, Guthlac and the Apostle's cult in early medieval England	136	(17)
Graham Jones
`Life, learning and wisdom': the forms and functions of beguine education	153	(15)
Penelope Galloway
Franciscan educational perspectives: reworking monastic traditions	168	(14)
Bert Roest
Monastic educational culture revisited: the witness of Zwiefalten and the Hirsau reform	182	(16)
Constant J. Mews
Abbreviations	198	(1)
Bibliography	199	(32)
Index	231