TY - BOOK AU - Long,Micòl TI - Learning as shared practice in monastic communities, 1070-1180 T2 - Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, SN - 9789004460416 AV - BX2470 .L58 2022 U1 - 271.00902 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Monachesimo e ordini religiosi KW - Medioevo KW - sbaa KW - Studio e insegnamento N1 - Include bibliografia e indice; The authors and their letters -- The context of shared learning -- The means of shared learning -- The effects of shared learning -- Shared learning in female communities -- Shared learning in other religious groups N2 - "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. The book challenges the common understanding of education as the transmission of knowledge via a hierarchical master-disciple learning model and shows how knowledge was also shared, exchanged, jointly processed and developed. Long presents a new and more complicated picture of reciprocal knowledge exchanges, which could be horizontal and bottom-up as well as vertical, and where the same individuals could assume different educational roles depending on the specific circumstances and on the learning contents" ER -