Learning as Shared Practice in Monastic Communities, 1070-1180

Micol Long, Ph.D. (Scuola Normale Superiore – Pisa, 2013) is Senior Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders at Ghent University. She has authored publications on medieval letter-writing and monastic culture and co-edited Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages (2019).

Acknowledgements



Introduction



1 The Authors and Their Letters

 1.1 The Long Twelfth Century

 1.2 Chronological Survey of the Most Important Authors

 1.3 Comparative and Methodological Remarks



2 The Context of Shared Learning

 2.1 A Time for Learning?

 2.2 The Physical Environment

 2.3 The Social Environment



3 The Means of Shared Learning

 3.1 Social Control and Peer Pressure

 3.2 Imitation

 3.3 Accusation, Admonition and Correction

 3.4 Consolation and Exhortation

 3.5 Sharing Ideas, Knowledge and Experience



4 The Effects of Shared Learning

 4.1 Effects on the Individual

 4.2 Effects on the Community



5 Shared Learning in Female Communities



6 Shared Learning in Other Religious Groups

 6.1 Canons

 6.2 Anchorites



Conclusions

Bibliography

Index