Seeing and Knowing: Women and Learning in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9782503514482)

The studies within this volume apply insights gained from gender studies to re-consider the way knowledge and learning was transmitted in medieval Europe 1200-1550. Traditional scholarship has largely concentrated on the clerical and academic context of conventional learning. It tended to focus on the contents and methods of formal education, as well as on a small group of educational institutions from which women were excluded. In this volume, authors consider how learning was transmitted outside the schools, in particular within women's communities. They raise a range of questions: how was knowledge transmitted in an oral context, what varieties of knowledge were available to communities of women? What kinds of learning are characteristic of such communities? What techniques did women develop to preserve and transmit their knowledge and how was it valorized both within their communities, and by 'authoritative' outsiders? Under what circumstances could women themselves gain authority in passing on knowledge to a wider audience?

Author: Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
ISBN-10: 2503514480
ISBN-13: 9782503514482
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2004
Pages: 215
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.62h x 6.54w x 0.74d